Chase Manhattan Mortgage & Realty Trust v. Bergman

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

The sole issue on this appeal from an order of the Southern District of New York affirming a decision of the bankruptcy court is whether the debtor, Bernard Bergman, d/b/a Park Crescent Nursing Home (“Park Crescent”), is the “legal or equitable owner” of real property in the Park Crescent within the meaning of Chapter XII of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq., which permits a debtor owning such an interest to invoke the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court for the purpose of arriving at a court-approved arrangement alter- • ing or modifying the rights of…