Legal Opinion
Merrill Farms Corp. v. H.R. Hindle & Co., Inc. (In Re H.R. Hindle & Co.)
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 13, 1993No. 19-11603PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID A. SCHOLL, Bankruptcy Judge. A. INTRODUCTION
The instant proceeding represents this court’s first extensive encounter with the 1984 amendments to the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 7 U.S.C. § 499e, et seq. (“PACA”), which, as amended in 1984, provides that producers of commodities covered by PACA are entitled to a “floating trust” on proceeds of sales of those commodities. Despite our general skepticism of claims that assets of a debtor are the res of a trust, thereby providing a priority to the putative trust beneficiary apart from that established in the Bankruptcy…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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3Cited by13 opinions
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