Matter of Batla

ORDER

A. D. KAHN, Bankruptcy Judge.

This case raises serious questions about the efforts of Trust Company Bank (“Bank”) and its counsel, John W. Bland, Jr., to collect a debt in violation of the automatic stay and the order of discharge. A contempt hearing was held on January 26, 1981, and after hearing evidence and oral argument, the court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.

FINDINGS OF FACT

The debtors, Charles Glynn Batla and Anna-Lorey Batla, filed a joint petition for relief pursuant to Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the “Code”). Relief was ordered…