Legal Opinion
Keach v. Wheeling & Lake Erie Ry. Co. (In Re Montreal, Maine & Atl. Railway, Ltd.)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 18, 2018No. 17-1912PPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to explore the labyrinth of high-stakes bankruptcy law to determine whether the proceeds of a multi-million-dollar sale of certain railroad lines constituted property of the bankruptcy estate. Although we are skeptical of the rationale employed by the courts below and thread our way through this maze along a different ratiocinative path, we arrive at the same place: we conclude that the disputed funds were not property of the bankruptcy estate. Consequently, we affirm the dismissal of the complaint.
I. BACKGROUND
Because this appeal challenges an…
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