Hartman Corporation of America v. United States
Decision Date | 20 June 1962 |
Docket Number | No. 16928.,16928. |
Citation | 304 F.2d 429 |
Parties | HARTMAN CORPORATION OF AMERICA, a corporation, and Jane I. Hartman, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America and Fred J. Lauchli, Trustee of Hartman Corporation of America, Appellees. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
William J. Becker, Clayton, Mo., for appellant.
Ralph A. Muoio, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees, and Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Lee A. Jackson, I. Henry Kutz, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., D. Jeff Lance, U. S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., and John A. Newton, Asst. U. S. Atty., on the brief.
Kenneth Teasdale and Charles E. Dapron, of Armstrong, Teasdale, Roos, Kramer & Vaughan, St. Louis, Mo., for appellee Fred J. Lauchli, Trustee of Hartman Corp. of America.
Before SANBORN, BLACKMUN and RIDGE, Circuit Judges.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing a petition for review of an order of the Honorable Wm. O'Herin, Referee in Bankruptcy, entered in the Matter of Hartman Corporation of America, Bankrupt, on February 10, 1961. The order of the Referee allowed an amended tax claim of the United States, filed against the bankrupt corporation, in the amount of $509,750.12. The bankrupt, claiming to be a "person aggrieved" within the meaning of Section 39, sub. c of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 U.S.C.A. § 67, sub. c), petitioned for review of the order on February 27, 1961. The Referee's certificate on the petition was filed March 10, 1961. The certificate stated that the question for determination was "the correctness of the Referee's order of February 10, 1961, allowing Claim No. 192 of the United States for taxes." The Trustee in Bankruptcy on May 1, 1961, moved to dismiss the petition for review, on the ground that the bankrupt was not a "person aggrieved" by the Referee's order and was without standing to seek a review. The controversy was submitted to the late Judge Weber on June 30, 1961. On August 1, 1961, Jane I. Hartman, a stockholder of the bankrupt, asked leave to intervene as a "person aggrieved" and to join the bankrupt in its petition for review. She suggested that her personal rights and property would be affected by the outcome.
Judge Weber on August 24, 1961, granted the Trustee's motion to dismiss the bankrupt's petition for review, and overruled Jane I. Hartman's petition for leave to intervene.
In his unreported memorandum opinion, the Judge had this to say:
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