Foust v. Munson Steamship Lines

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the automatic stay, which provides greater protection than the discharge injunction, does not bar a- suit where the debtor is named only to establish the liability of a debtor’s insurance carrier
• allowing wrongful death action against bankrupt to proceed despite stay for amount “not exceeding the amount of insurer’s liability to the debtor under the policy”
• modification allowed to establish debtors’ liability although insurance policy had deductible creating liability of debtor not covered by insurer
• modification allowed to establish debtors' liability although insurance policy had deductible creating liability of debtor not covered by insurer
• Creditor needed judgment against debtor to proceed against transferee under Bulk Sales Act
• proceeding under former section 77B, the predecessor of Chapter X

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).