William Lawrence v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

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• applying Segal’s “sufficiently rooted” test to determine whether a deposit was property of the bankruptcy estate
• refusing to order turnover to the trustee of good faith deposit that debtor made prepetition in connection with the purchase of real estate because the debtor had no present right to possess the deposit and thus no legal or equitable interest in it
• “It is axiomatic that a trustee's interests and rights in property are limited by and to the rights and interests of the debtor in that property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).