Stumpf v. McGee

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

For this Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, the executory partnership agreement at issue having been neither expressly assumed nor rejected, of primary concern is whether the Trustee is substituted for the Debtor as a partner and can maintain an action against the other partners for violations of transfer restrictions in the agreement and for distributions concerning those transfers, including whether the agreement was assumable under the Bankruptcy Code and Louisiana law. The bankruptcy court held the agreement passed through bankruptcy to the Reorganized…