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Dillworth (sic) firm that I did not have any more
liquid assets and I never heard anything on that matter
again in eight years, nine years.
After the Orphans' Court, sitting en banc, issued its
opinion and order on August 1, 1989, all parties appealed the
order to the Superior Court, which affirmed the order on June 13,
1990. Lynch then filed a petition for the allowance of an appeal
to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which was denied on January
15, 1991. As to Lynch, therefore, the Orphans' Court litigation
was concluded on January 15, 1991.
In the meantime, on August 29, 1989, Lynch had filed a
petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 11, United States
Code. In his petition Lynch, acknowledging his debt, listed the
Estate of Philip Meriano as a judgment creditor in the amount of
$225,000.
On August 22, 1990, Lynch's bankruptcy petition was
dismissed by the bankruptcy court because the bankruptcy estate
failed to file required schedules.
No further steps were taken by the estate to collect the
judgment debt from Lynch. In making this finding, we are not
unmindful of Tupitza's testimony at trial that:
We spent sometime trying to do some collection
efforts on Lynch and Reardon and at one point, after a
discussion with Ms. Panepinto, we took those time slips
and purged them and did not bill for that time.
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