MITCHELL v. COLE


966 S.W.2d 411 (1998)

Juanita MITCHELL, Personal Representative of the Estate of Billy Gwinn Mitchell, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sam F. COLE, Jr., Substitute Trustee, Estate of Prudence Reynolds, and Gerald W. Pickens, Administrator, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

Rehearing Denied June 1, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Stephen King, Arthur E. Quinn, The Bogatin Law Firm, PLC, Memphis, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sam F. Cole, Jr., Memphis, for Defendants-Appellees.


OPINION

LYLE REID, Special Justice.

This case presents for review the decision of the Court of Appeals that a debtor cannot collaterally attack in state court an adjudication made in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding regarding the balance due on a debt owed by the debtor-bankrupt. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is affirmed as modified.

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In 1973 Prudence Reynolds, now deceased, sold a farm to the appellant, Billy Gwin Mitchell...

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