E. W. Mullins, John K. Sloan and Richard L. Oliver, Etc., and v. Daniel D. Sullivan and Jo Ann Sullivan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
E. W. Mullins, John K. Sloan and Richard L. Oliver, Etc., and v. Daniel D. Sullivan and Jo Ann Sullivan, 414 F.2d 786 (9th Cir. 1969)
1969 U.S. App. LEXIS 11613

E. W. Mullins, John K. Sloan and Richard L. Oliver, Etc., and v. Daniel D. Sullivan and Jo Ann Sullivan

Opinion

PER CURIAM:

Appellants leased a laundromat from appellees and fell behind in the rent. They left the laundromat in unclear circumstances. Several months later, ap-pellees filed a petition to have appellants declared bankrupt. The referee found that appellants had abandoned the premises. He applied the measure of damages provided by Cal.Civil Code § 3308 and found an indebtedness to appellees of $7908.83 plus costs and attorney’s fees of $1111.60.

We are not in a position to overturn the finding of abandonment. This being so, most of the California cases cited by the parties on the California law of landlord and tenant are inapposite.

It is clear that there was enough indebtedness to satisfy the requirement of 11 U.S.C. § 95, which was all that was necessary as an amount to adjudicate involuntarily this business bankruptcy.

Somebody may have wrongfully crippled appellants by changing the locks on the washing machines. But the referee found that the landlords didn’t do it. So this issue is unimportant here.

The adjudication of bankruptcy is affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
E. W. MULLINS, John K. Sloan and Richard L. Oliver, Etc., Petitioners and Appellees, v. Daniel D. SULLIVAN and Jo Ann Sullivan, Appellants
Status
Published