Shelton v. Wells (In Re Shelton)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERT E. BRAUER, Bankruptcy Judge.

In a case pending under the Bankruptcy Code 1 Debtors (as Plaintiffs) filed a Complaint To Avoid Judgment Lien, seeking to avoid the lien of a judgment obtained agamst them, by the Defendants, on April 21, 1981, in the Circuit Court of Dunklin County, Missouri, in Cause CV18-813CC. Judgment for $23,950.00 plus costs, was entered upon Count II of a two-count Petition filed July 1, 1980. Each of the two counts was predicated upon fraud: Count I prayed for the rescission of the allegedly tainted transaction (a real estate trade, or exchange);…