In the Matter of Indian Lake Estates, Inc., Bankrupt. United States of America v. Ernest L. Stewart, Trustee in Bankruptcy

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

This mortal court must attempt to divine the intent of Congress in a situation where that intent may well be known only to the Divine. We must say what Congress meant by two brief phrases in a technical proviso passage of an amendment to the dischargeable debt provisions of the bankruptcy laws when an exhaustive examination by counsel for both parties and this Court of the history of the legislative processes leading to this enactment fails to disclose that the meaning or the significance of the language critical to our decision, was ever really considered. The…