Court Opinion

ID: 9460496
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:52:27.237829+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:38.991137
License: Public Domain

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
While I concur in the opinion, I wish to record my objection to the handling of this bankruptcy case.
The receiver was appointed, as he had to be, “in aid of bankruptcy.” Yet without any adjudication of bankruptcy of the Chews, the receiver has sold, parcel by parcel, most of the debtors’ properties. (It appears 17 parcels have been sold.) This strange sequence must be accounted for by the fact that the debtors appear, after the receiver was appointed, to have aligned themselves with their banker, turning their backs on their former lawyer, Crittenden, and normally there is more that a banker can do for a debtor than a lawyer.
Even though no one was pressing, it is simply wrong to let a receiver proceed with a liquidation without an adjudication of bankruptcy.
I see an abuse of the federal bankruptcy power.