Court Opinion

ID: 9453530
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:16:21.454723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:41.858732
License: Public Domain

ENOCH, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
It seems to me that the statute in question is designed to benefit those who make honest mistakes of law or fact and that the District Court did not err in considering the element of good faith. Nor does it seem to me that the burden of proving good faith was imposed on the plaintiff but merely the burden of carrying on with evidence at the hearing after a prima facie allegation of facts to show lack of good faith. While there is a conflict in the evidence, I do not believe that we can conclude that the District Court was clearly erroneous in its findings of fact. I would affirm the order of dismissal.