Bank of Bethesda v. Koch

In a letter “To Number 1365” declining once more to sanction a dramatization of “Tom Sawyer”, Mark Twain once wrote of a fictitious experience as a western college professor, whereupon a Piute squaw intending to honor him named her baby for him, “a voluntary compliment” which pleased him greatly but brought about devastating and unforeseen consequences. 1 Such an honor the Bank of Bethesda seeks to have us bestow upon a statutory “Injun”, legislatively referred to as a “charging order”, which the Bank would have us redenominate a “judicial assignment”.

Because a limited partner’s interest in a…