Legal Opinion
Big Shanty Land Corp. v. Comer Properties, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided October 4, 1985No. Civ. A. C84-2436A, C85-1888A, C85-1957A and C85-2166APublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SHOOB, District Judge.
This Chapter 11 bankruptcy case presents the rare spectacle of a solvent debtor whose sole asset, a valuable tract of undeveloped real estate, is the object of a fierce bidding war. Presently before the Court are consolidated appeals involving three orders of the Bankruptcy Court. Although the Court will not reverse the appealed orders, it seriously doubts that the Bankruptcy Court should continue acting as a referee in the parties' dispute.
The following is a truncated version of the complicated factual background underlying this case but should suffice for present…
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