MATTER OF PATTERSON

Nos. 86-2107, 86-2167.

825 F.2d 1140 (1987)

In the Matter of Ronald and Marjorie PATTERSON, Debtors. Appeal of ABBOTSFORD STATE BANK.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank L. Nikolay, Nikolay, Jensen, Scott & Gamoke, S.C., Colby, Wis., for appellant.

Bruce Evan Zito, Mart W. Swenson, S.C., Eau Claire, Wis., for appellees.

Before POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This farm bankruptcy case raises questions of interpretation under 11 U.S.C. § 522, the statute that governs the bankrupt's right to take some of his property out of the bankrupt estate and thus keep it after he is discharged from bankruptcy.

Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were engaged in dairy farming in Wisconsin. They rented rather than owned the farmland and buildings (including the house they lived in), but owned the cows and farm...

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