Court Opinion

ID: 9454140
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:37:37.749214+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:59.411699
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TUTTLE, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
I concur in the result. I do so, however, not on the ground that the United States should be faulted for anything done by it during the course of the proceedings, as suggested by the opinion of the court, but rather on the authority of National Bank of Eastern Arkansas v. General Mills, Inc. (8 Cir. 1960), 283 F.2d 574. Since the original suit on the note was pending in the same court that had jurisdiction of the bankruptcy matter, and since the obvious and natural effect of the discharge in bankruptcy would be to discharge this very debt, it appears to me that the court can give effect to the discharge, even though not formally pleaded.