In Re Speck
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. South Dakota
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
PEDER K. ECKER, Bankruptcy Judge.
These cases have been consolidated for the Court’s resolution of a single legal issue: Whether a contract for deed for the purchase of real estate is an executory contract within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 365, which must be assumed or rejected, or a financing device which can be treated as a secured debt in the plan of reorganization.
The facts in these cases are similar and undisputed. In each case, the debtors are the buyers of real estate on a contract for deed which provides that the buyer will make periodic payments to the seller. Upon…
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