Rakozy v. Crasper (In Re Crasper)

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ALFRED C. HAGAN, Chief Judge.

The trustee has filed this adversary proceeding to deny the debtor’s discharge in this chapter 7 proceeding. The trustee has moved for a judgment on the pleadings. The basis for the trustee’s motion is a default judgment entered against the debt- or in an Oregon chapter 7 proceeding denying him a discharge on July 3, 1990.

The debtor argues the prior judgment should not be given res judicata effect because it was a default judgment.

This Court has previously ruled in In Re Martindale, 92 I.B.C.R. 16, that the revocation of a debtor’s discharge…