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· 12/27/1982

In Re: Claude Dennis Pitner, Debtor. Martha Smith v. Claude D. Pitner

Citations

  • 696 F.2d 447
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 23050
  • 10 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 210

How courts have described this case

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  • “It has been a general rule that liabilities arising from [] battery are considered as founded on willful and malicious injuries”
  • “[m]alice may be inferred from the use of a deadly weapon” where creditor accidentally shot by debtor during barroom altercation
  • jury verdict finding that debtor deliberately shot and killed plaintiff’s husband with intent to injure or kill, and not in self-defense, satisfied elements of “willful and malicious” under Section 523(a)(6)

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Judges: Lively, Peck, Per Curiam, Phillips

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