Legal Opinion
In Re Streets & Beard Farm Partnership, Debtor. Loren and Doris Mitchell v. David Streets, Shari Streets, Fred Beard, and Reynolds M. Everett, Trustee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 1989No. 88-3373PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by this case is whether an installment contract for the sale of real estate between the vendors, appellants Loren and Doris Mitchell, and the debtor, appellee Streets and Beard Farm Partnership, is an executory contract within the meaning of Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code. Both the bankruptcy judge and the district court held that it was not and therefore rejected the appellants’ petition to set a time certain for the trustee to assume or reject the contract. We affirm.
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On April 29, 1983, Loren and Doris Mitchell contracted to sell their 160…
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