In Re Pipes

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FRANK W. ROGER, Chief Judge.

ITT Financial Services, Inc. (hereinafter ITT) filed its proof of claim in this proceeding as a secured claim. The Trustee has objected thereto. The Honorable Karen M. See, on December 13, 1989, allowed ITT 10 days to file an amended claim. This was accomplished by ITT and it is this amended, allegedly secured claim that the Trustee suggests should be allowed as unsecured.

The roots of the difference between the Trustee and ITT go back to 1963 when the Missouri legislature, in its collective and infinite wisdom, adopted the so-called dual filing…