In Re Pike

ORDER

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

Efforts to escape liability for willful and malicious injury characterize this aging and troubled Chapter 13 controversy.

There follows the chronology which leads us to the entry of this final order:

In 1972, Brett Lee Pike was involved in an automobile accident, as a consequence of which he was sued by Albert Kaiser for $300,000.

In 1973, Pike signed an agreed judgment against him in the amount of $12,000 in punitive and compensatory damages resulting from his “gross, willful and wanton negligence” in the accident. 1

In December, 1977, Pike filed a…