IN RE REEF PETROLEUM CORP.

Bankruptcy No. NT 83-02437, Adv. No. 86-0665.

99 B.R. 355 (1989)

In re REEF PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Debtor. REEF PETROLEUM CORPORATION and The Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee, Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Michigan.

April 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Haring, Suttons Bay, Mich., for plaintiff, Reef Petroleum Corp.

Hertzberg, Jacob & Weingarten, David Murphy, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff, The Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee.

John A. Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Janice Kittel Mann, Asst. U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Thomas R. Jones, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, D.C., for defendant, U.S.


OPINION

DAVID E. NIMS, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

On August 25, 1986, the Debtor, Reef Petroleum Corporation (Reef), and the Official Unsecured Creditors' Committee (the Committee), brought this adversary proceeding against the United States through the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to recover a tax refund allegedly owed Reef in the amount of $112,613.57. The alleged claim arose as follows. The IRS mistakenly paid the same refund twice. The IRS discovered the...

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