Teasley v. Burgess (In Re Teasley)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

The within file has swollen to disproportionate bulk in a controversy over what could be as little as $715 worth of household furniture. It has done so, we suspect, because of certain misperceptions of some rather primary points of bankruptcy law. It will be the intent of this brief order to palliate that distended condition.

In the absence of an evidentiary hearing we will confine our consideration to those matters that are beyond factual dispute.

Five weeks before Jerry Teasley filed bankruptcy on March 15, 1982, his landlord went to…