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· 7/11/1996

Kewanee Boiler Corp. v. Smith (In Re Kewanee Boiler Corp.)

Citations

  • 198 B.R. 519
  • 1996 Bankr. LEXIS 849
  • 29 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 470
  • 1996 WL 399831

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that state court action against reorganized company based on injury from boiler manufactured prepetition could not be enjoined because claimant’s “right to notice under bankruptcy law and the Constitution [was] not met”
  • “In all cases found where a trust was created out of which future claims against the estate were to be paid, some assertedly injurious contact between the future victim and the product occurred pre-petition. Only the manifestation of a disease was lacking.”
  • reaching the same conclusion as to existing case law

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Judges: Jack B. Schmetterer

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