IN RE HOUTMAN

No. 76-3611.

568 F.2d 651 (1978)

In re John HOUTMAN and Gladys Irene Houtman, Bankrupts. John HOUTMAN and Gladys Irene Houtman, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Edgar F. MANN and Edna M. Mann, Creditors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 25, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Park, Sacramento, Cal., for petitioners-appellants.

James A. Thompson, Redwood City, Cal., for creditors-appellees.

Before HUFSTEDLER and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and RENFREW, District Judge.


This is an appeal from an order of the district court affirming a decision of the bankruptcy judge that a 1971 state court judgment for $55,000 against the appellants was nondischargeable in bankruptcy. The bankruptcy judge found that the judgment rested on a transaction "so tainted by fraud as to render it [the judgment] a nondischargeable obligation." Presumably this meant that the judgment represented a "liability for obtaining money or property by false pretenses or false...

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