Legal Opinion
Nixon MacHinery Co. v. Roy Energy, Inc. (In Re Nixon MacHinery Co.)
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided October 29, 1981No. Bankruptcy No. 1-80-00779, Adv. No. 1-80-0696PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
RALPH H. KELLEY, Bankruptcy Judge.
This is a suit to collect a debt, brought in this court because the plaintiff, Nixon Machinery, is a debtor in possession in a chapter 11 bankruptcy case pending in this court. See 11 U.S.C. §§ 1106(a), 323, & 542(b). The alleged debtors, Robert C. Roy and Roy Energy, Incorporated, deny they owe Nixon any debt. But the question now before the court does not concern the merits of Nixon’s claim.
In their answer, the defendants raised two preliminary defenses: (1) that service of process was insufficient and (2) that the court does not have jurisdiction…
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