Long Island Trust Co. v. Felder

The plaintiff commenced an action against defendants who had executed and defaulted on a promissory note. Judgment was docketed on November 27, 1967. No issue has been raised that the debt on which the judgment was obtained was not founded in willful tort or fraud; nor that same could not be discharged in bankruptcy.

The plaintiff claims that the judgment still stands, although there was an adjudiction in bankruptcy on February 27, 1968, and a discharge in each bankruptcy proceeding, August 7, 1968.

During the bankruptcy defendants purchased the trustee’s interest in the premises of which they…