KANE, Senior District Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the district court sitting as an appellate court in bankruptcy. The district court determined a grain elevator that had accepted money from two farmers to place an order for commodity futures contracts was a "futures commission merchant," and thus a "commodities broker" under the Bankruptcy Code. The court then found the farmers were "customers" of the broker and that certain funds in the grain elevator...
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