Texas Camp Hit by Floods Should Be Run by Trustee, Families Say

Camp Mystic, the Texas girls camp where 28 people were killed in flash floods last summer, should be taken over by a bankruptcy trustee who can settle lawsuits filed against the company and the family blamed for the deaths, a committee of parents said in a court filing. The family of Richard Eastland, who co-owned and ran the camp before he died in the flood, has been mismanaging the valuable, 725-acre property and has too many conflicts of interest to be allowed to remain in control, an official committee of unsecured creditors said in the Tuesday filing in federal court ...