Anderson v. McPhate

CULPEPPER, Judge;

The plaintiff, Estelle Beam Anderson, filed a rule to show cause why there should not be judgment rendered herein decreeing that defendant’s discharge in bankruptcy does not release a certain judgment in favor of plaintiff and her two minor children for damages for the wrongful death of plaintiffs husband. The district judge held for the plaintiff on the grounds that plaintiff's husband was killed in an automobile accident caused by the “extreme intoxication of the defendant and hence the judgment was for willful and malicious injury within the meaning of the Federal…