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Parties Involved:
Melvin Leroy Musil
Appellant
The Farm Credit Bank of Wichita
Appellee

Document Text:

In Re: MELVIN 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

LEROY MUSIL ) 

) 

Debtor ) 

) 

------------------ ) 

) 

.FILED 

Umted States Court of Apoeals Tenth C!rcuit ~ 

oc; o 9 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk . 

THE FARM CREDIT BANK ) No. 91-3220 

OF WICHITA, ) ( D. C. No. 90-CV-4183) 

) (Dist. of Kans.) 

Appellee, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

MELVIN LEROY MUSIL, ) 

) 

Appellant. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before LOGAN, MOORE and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges. 

This is an appeal from the district court's dismissal of an 

appeal from orders of the bankruptcy court. The case is before us 

on debtor's motion for leave to appeal without payment of fees and 

costs. We have examined the record and concluded the motion 

*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 estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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should be denied and the appeal dismissed. 

Mr. Musil filed a Chapter 7 liquidating bankruptcy petition 

within six years after the confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan of 

reorganization. As a consequence, he was denied a discharge in 

this case. 11 u.s.c. § 727(a)(8). Although Mr. Musil appears to 

be appealing the order in which his discharge was denied, the 

record indicates the confirmation of the Chapter 11 plan was 

entered on February 7, 1986 and his subsequent Chapter 7 petition 

was filed on March 5, 1990. There can be no dispute under these 

circumstances the order of the bankruptcy court denying discharge 

was not in error. 

During the course of the administration of the Chapter 7 

case, the Farm Credit Bank of Wichita (FCB) filed two motions for 

relief from stay so that it could obtain sheriff's deeds on two 

parcels of property it had foreclosed upon prior to March 5, 1990. 

Neither of these parcels was scheduled by Mr. Musil as an asset in 

his bankruptcy estate. Relief from stay was granted to FCB after 

the bankruptcy court found the debtor had no equity in the 

property. 

Mr. Musil, appearing prose, then filed two "motions" in the 

bankruptcy court. The purpose of these papers is unclear, but it 

appears Mr. Musil wanted the bankruptcy court to give him time to 

redeem the real property. He also apparently wanted to recover 

some personal property that was not scheduled as an asset of the 

bankruptcy estate and had been foreclosed upon prior to the filing 

of his case. The bankruptcy court properly ruled it did not have 

jurisdiction to grant the requested relief. 

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Upon appeal, the district court held Mr. Musil advanced no 

factual or legal basis for reversal of any of the orders of the 

bankruptcy court and dismissed the appeal. Upon Mr. Musil's 

subsequent motion to appeal in forma pauperis, the district court 

found the appeal frivolous and denied the motion. We reach the 

same conclusion. 

In order to succeed on the motion, Mr. Musil must show both a 

financial inability to pay the required filing fees, and the 

existence of a reasoned, nonfrivolous argument on the law and 

facts in support of the issues raised on appeal. See 28 u.s.c. § 

1915(a); Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438 (1962); Ragan v. 

Cox, 305 F.2d 58 (10th Cir. 1962). 

We conclude Mr. Musil can make no rational argument on the 

law or facts in support of the issues raised on appeal; therefore, 

the motion for leave to proceed on appeal without prepayment of 

costs or fees is DENIED. It is further ordered the appeal is 

DISMISSED because no rational argument can be made. The mandate 

shall issue forthwith. 

Entered for the Court 

John P. Moore 

Circuit Judge 

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