Legal Opinion
Woodson v. Ford Motor Credit Co. (In Re Cole)
District Court, N.D. Oklahoma
Decided April 18, 1990No. Bankruptcy Nos. 88-02921-C, 86-01522-W, Adv. Nos. 89-0033-C, 86-0299-W, Nos. 89-C-440-C, 89-C-549-CPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
H. DALE COOK, Chief Judge.
In this consolidated appeal, the Court is asked to review conflicting rulings by the District’s two bankruptcy judges in characterizing written agreements as either leases or secured installment sales contracts. This appeal stems from ten adversary proceedings, each under a separate Chapter 7 bankruptcy case. The basic fact pattern in all of these proceedings is virtually identical. Each debtor signed a written agreement, described as a lease, with a Ford or Lincoln-Mercury dealership. Under this agreement, the debtor acquired the use of a vehicle for a…
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