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Parties Involved:
Chanute Production Credit Association
Appellee
Carroll Richard Olson
Appellant
Mona Melva Olson
Appellant

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

In re CARROLL RICHARD OLSON, ) 

and MONA MELVA OLSON, doing ) 

business as Olson Farms, ) 

formerly doing business as ) 

Olson Fur Company, Inc., ) 

formerly doing business as ) 

Western Fur Company, Inc., ) 

) 

Debtors. ) 

) 

________________ ) 

) 

CARROLL RICHARD OLSON, ) 

and MONA MELVA OLSON, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellants, ) 

) 

f lLED 

United St@tes Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

MA .. 5 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. ) 

) 

No. 89-3253 

( D. Kansas) 

CHANUTE PRODUCTION CREDIT ) (D.C. No. 88-4215-R) 

ASSOCIATION, ) 

) 

Plaintiff-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MCKAY, SEYMOUR, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

Appellate Case: 89-3253 Document: 01019966007 Date Filed: 03/05/1990 Page: 1 
34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. Therefore, the case is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

Appellants Carroll Richard Olson and Mona Melva Olson appeal 

from the district court's September 11, 1989 order affirming a 

default judgment entered against them by the United States 

Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas in the amount of 

$176,026.15. On appeal, the Olsons argue that: (1) appellee 

Chanute Production Credit Association ("Chanute PCA") should have 

been barred from objecting to plaintiffs' discharge in bankruptcy 

because it took too long (allegedly more than three years) in 

attempting to prove its fraud claim; (2) Chanute PCA should have 

been barred from objecting to plaintiffs' discharge in bankruptcy 

because it failed to file a proof of claim in appellants' 

bankruptcy proceeding; (3) Chanute PCA has failed to prove that 

appellants committed any fraud; (4) Chanute PCA wrongfully took a 

wedding ring and certain records belonging to appellants; and 

(5) Chanute PCA evicted appellants from their property when the 

temperature was twenty degrees below zero; and (6) the amount of 

the default judgment exceeded the amount that appellants owed to 

Chanute PCA. 

On appeal, our review is limited to determining whether the 

bankruptcy court abused its discretion in entering default 

judgment against appellants. See Sheftelman v. Standard Metals 

Corp., 839 F.2d 1383, 1387 (10th Cir.), cert. dismissed, 

109 S. Ct. 201 (1988). The default judgment was based upon 

appellants' persistent refusal to provide discovery and to comply 

with orders of the bankruptcy court. We have reviewed the record, 

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and we cannot conclude that the bankruptcy court abused its 

discretion in entering a default judgment against appellants for 

$176,026.15. 

Therefore, we AFFIRM the September 11, 1989 order of the 

district court affirming the bankruptcy court's entry of default 

judgment against appellants. The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

David M. Ebel 

Circuit Judge 

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