Legal Opinion
In re Barnes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 1992No. 91-2802PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1984 and 1985 the appellant, Gerald Gruenhagen, made unsecured personal loans totaling $12,000 to his friend and coworker, Edward Barnes, the appellee. (They were employed respectively as a test engineer and as an assembler.) These loans had not been repaid in September 1986 when Barnes filed a petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 7. Nevertheless Barnes did not list Gruenhagen on the schedule of creditors that he filed with the bankruptcy court, and as a result the court did not notify Gruenhagen of the proceeding. But within a month or so after the filing Barnes had…
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