O'Neil v. Miller (In Re Bridgeman)

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ROBERT L. KRECHEVSKY, Bankruptcy Judge.

I

ISSUE

The principal question presented in this adversary proceeding, submitted to the court upon a stipulation of facts and memoranda of law, is whether a trustee may avoid a creditor’s prepetition attachment purportedly placed upon the debtor’s partnership interest in a general partnership.

II

BACKGROUND

Matthew F. Bridgeman (the “Debtor”), on October 15,1993, was operating a restaurant, named The North End Deli, as a co-partnership with one Maurice Beebe Jr. (“Beebe”), in Groton, Connecticut. On that date, after notice and hearing, a…