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IN RE WARD

No. 89-4099.

894 F.2d 771 (1990)

In re Frank WARD, f/d/b/a Ward Brothers, and Charlene May Ward, Debtors. Billy R. VINING, Trustee, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. Frank WARD, et al., Defendants, Hamilton & Carroll, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 22, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Rountree and William T. McNew, Hudson, Potts & Bernstein, Monroe, La., for Hamilton & Carroll.

Richard A. Bailly and Stephen J. Katz, Rankin, Yeldell, Herring & Katz, Bastrop, La., for Billy R. Vining.

Before KING, JOLLY and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the disposition of an unscheduled asset of a bankruptcy estate. After a tortuous path involving three trips through bankruptcy and district courts, it presents this rather queer result: the defendant law firm executed on a judgment (the unscheduled asset) for its client (the bankrupt), for which the bankruptcy court awarded it attorney's fees of roughly $8,000, but the bankruptcy court then found that the law firm...

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