First United Partners 9 v. Williams Meat Co. (In Re First United Partners 9)

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND FINAL DECREE AND JUDGMENT DECLARING SALE AGREEMENT VOID AND DIRECTING TURNOVER OF RENTAL PAYMENTS UNDER INITIAL LEASE

DENNIS J. STEWART, Bankruptcy Judge.

Now before the court are a complex of issues which have been transferred to the undersigned from the division of the bankruptcy court formerly presided over by the Honorable Joel Pelofsky. All of these issues focus around one central issue — that of whether a lease agreement, initially entered into by and between the debtor (as lessor) and the Williams Meat Company (as lessee), under which the debtor…