Legal Opinion

Hammes v. Brumley

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 29, 1995No. 49S02-9512-CV-1382, 72S01-9512-CV-1383, 49S02-9505-CV-503, 55S01-9512-CV-1381 and 64S03-9505-CV-604PublishedCited by 94 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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SULLIVAN, Justice.

Each of these five cases requires us to decide one or more issues which arose when a claim in a lawsuit filed in state court also constituted an asset or a debt of a debtor in federal bankruptey proceedings.

Hammes v. Brumley, Hendrix v. Page, Shewmaker v. Etter, and Stallsworth v. Munoz each present the issue of whether a state law claim filed in violation of a principle of federal bankruptcy law can be saved by a subsequent order of a federal bankruptcy court, notwithstanding the intervening expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. In…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Pepper v. LittonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
  2. Harold J. Hawkins and Eugenia B. Hawkins v. Landmark Finance Company, in Re Harold J. Hawkins and Eugenia B. Hawkins, DebtorsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
  3. In the Matter of Gladys E. Shondel, Debtor-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
  4. Pence v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1995
  5. Higgins v. HaleIndiana Supreme Court · 1985

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3Cited by94 opinions

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  3. Abbott v. BatesIndiana Court of Appeals · 1996
  4. State Ex Rel. Cittadine v. Indiana Department of TransportationIndiana Supreme Court · 2003
  5. Wabash Grain, Inc. v. SmithIndiana Court of Appeals · 1998

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