Legal Opinion
In Re Transatlantic and Pacific Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 22, 1963PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDELSTEIN, District Judge.
This petition for review of an order of the Referee in Bankruptcy presents the question whether the Trustee in Bankruptcy may contract, with a party who is not a creditor of the bankrupt, to sell the right of access to the bankrupt’s books, records and files in consideration for a promise to pay to the Bankrupt’s estate a percentage of any sum that the non-creditor may recover as plaintiff in a law suit pending in West Germany. The agreement dated August 17, 1961, between Edward Schilling, the Bankrupt’s trustee and Notgemeinschaft Deutscher Kohlen Bergbau G.m.b.H.…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Pepper v. LittonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Local Loan Co. v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Straton v. NewSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Babbitt v. DutcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
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3Cited by9 opinions
- In Re Riverside-Linden Investment Co., Debtor. Estes & Hoyt, a Professional Corporation Ralph O. Boldt, Trustee v. Kathryn Crake Earl HaferCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
- White County Bank v. Leavell (In Re Leavell)United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Illinois · 1992
- In Re KutnerUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Texas · 1980
- In Re Dejay Stores, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1963
- Lewis v. Cowan (In Re Cowan)United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Missouri · 1999
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