FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff-appellee, a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession, seeks to avoid an improperly recorded Indiana mortgage. Section 544(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 544(a)(3) (1984), allows a bankruptcy trustee to avoid such an encumbrance when it would be voidable by a bona fide purchaser. The debtor-in-possession and the intervenor argue that the mortgage at issue does not give notice to a bona fide purchaser, and therefore the plaintiff...
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