Sears, Roebuck & Company v. Schulein

282 F.2d 267 SEARS, ROEBUCK & COMPANY, a corporation, Appellant, v. Sidney SCHULEIN, Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Charles Robert Baldwin and Betty June Baldwin, Bankrupts, Appellee. No. 16719. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. September 6, 1960. 1 John Huneke, Paine, Lowe, Coffin, Herman & O'Kelly, Spokane, Wash., Theodore G. Morris, Wheeler, McCue & Morris, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant. 2 Thomas Malott, Spokane, Wash., for the appellee. 3 Before CHAMBERS and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and WOLLENBERG, District Judge. 4 WOLLENBERG, District Judge. 5 Sears, Roebuck & Company appeals from an Order of the District Court for the Eastern District of Washington affirming an Order of the Referee in Bankruptcy preserving for the benefit of the bankrupt estate all rights of the appellant in certain conditional sales contracts upon personal property claimed as exempt by the bankrupts and ordering the bankrupts, as a condition to retaining possession of said personalty, to pay the trustee the unpaid balance as prescribed in the original contracts of conditional sale. 6 Charles and Betty Baldwin, the bankrupts, purchased from Sears, Roebuck & Company…