District Court, E.D. New York March 13, 1941, No. 38047 (In re Columbia Tobacco Co.)

GALSTON, District Judge.

On November 14, 1939, the Columbia Tobacco Company, against which company a petition in bankruptcy was filed on November 20, 1939, executed an assignment of its claims and accounts to the law firm of Goldman, Malter & Goldman, to secure to that firm the payment of the sum of $2,500 “for services rendered and to be rendered by the said assignee for and on behalf of the