Legal Opinion
Smiley v. First National Bank of Belleville (In re Smiley)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 1989No. 88-1065PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILL, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiffs, creditors of defendants C. Rit-chey Smiley and his wife Marie W. Smiley, filed involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings against the Smileys and subsequently objected to their discharge. The bankruptcy court discharged Marie Smiley but refused to discharge Mr. Smiley. The district court affirmed and Mr. Smiley appealed. We affirm.
I. Factual background.
Defendant Smiley was a businessman in O’Fallon, Illinois who owned a real estate development company, an insurance agency, a travel agency and one-half of another real estate company called Remax. As a…
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