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MATTER OF SOUTHWEST FREIGHT LINES, INC.

Bankruptcy No. 85-20334, Adv. No. 87-0150, Civ. A. Nos. 88-2120-0 to 88-2127-0, 88-2133-0, 88-2134-0, 88-2210-0 and 88-2241-0.

100 B.R. 551 (1989)

In the Matter of SOUTHWEST FREIGHT LINES, INC., Debtor. Henry W. GREEN, Trustee for Southwest Freight Lines, Inc., Plaintiff, v. LOWES, INC., McNeil Consumer Products Co., Glazer Wholesale Drug Company, Inc., Sidermex International, Inc., f/k/a AHMSA Steel, Stouffer Foods, Inc., Hyplains Dressed Beef, Inc., Pioneer Steel & Tube Distributors, Inc., Georgia Pacific Corporation, Trinity Metals, Conagra, Inc., Safeway Stores Incorporated, Surbey Feed, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

May 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Frakie, Day, Sawdey, Flaggert & Porter, Grand Rapids, Mich., for debtor.

Henry W. Green, Southwest Freight Lines, Inc., Leavenworth, Kan., trustee.

Linda Kay Knight, Kansas City, Mo., Thomas M. Mullinix, Kansas City, Kan., for creditors.

Jerald I. Ancel, Marlene Reich, Ancel, Miroff & Frank, Robert B. Hebert, Robert M. Baker, III, Miller, Faires, Hebert & Woddell, Indianapolis, Ind., R. Pete Smith, McDowell, Rice & Smith, Kansas City, Kan. for Lowes, Inc.

Daniel J. Sweeney, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, Washington, D.C., Dennis R. Dow, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., Tim O'Brien, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Overland Park, Kan., for McNeil Consumer Products Co.

Paul J. Chitwood, Richard N. Currin, Dallas, Tex., Dale E. Bennett, Overland Park, Kan., James E. Bird, Polsinelli, White, Vardeman & Shalton, Kansas City, Mo., for Glazer Wholesale Drug Co., Inc.

Lawrence D. Greenbaum, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A., Kansas City, Kan., for Sidermex Intern., Inc., Stouffer Foods, Inc., Pioneer Steel & Tube Distributors, Inc.

David J. Rebein, Mangan, Dalton, Trenkle Rebein & Doll, Dodge City, Kan., Lawrence D. Greenbaum, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.C., Kansas City, Kan., for Hyplains Dressed Beef, Inc.

Darry Gene Sands, Kansas City, Mo., for Georgia Pacific Corp.

Richard M. Torack, St. Louis, Mo., William D. Mize, Deacy & Deacy, Overland Park, Kan., for Trinity Metals.

Robert S. Lannin, Boddington and Brown, Kansas City, Kan., Gary F. Wence, McGrath, Worth, O'Malley & Krantz, P.C., Omaha, Neb., for Conagra, Inc.

Richard N. Bien, Swanson, Midgley, Gangwere, Clarke & Kitchin, Kansas City, Mo., Robert D. Benham, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, Kan., for Safeway Stores, Inc., Surbey Feed, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

EARL E. O'CONNOR, Chief Judge.

These are appeals by Henry W. Green, Trustee of Southwest Freight Lines, Inc. ("Trustee") from orders of the bankruptcy court dismissing various adversary proceedings for lack of jurisdiction and standing. We affirm.

Our standard of review in bankruptcy appeals is clear. The bankruptcy courts' legal conclusions are subject to de novo review by the district court and the court of appeals....

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