Legal Opinion
Berge v. Sweet (In Re Berge)
United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided October 3, 1983No. 3-18-13883PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
ROBERT D. MARTIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
In 1977, chapter 11 debtors, Philip and Betty Jo Berge, signed a contract to purchase 2,777 acres of land in Adams County, Wisconsin, from the defendants, Robert and Helen Sweet (“Sweets”). As a result of debtors’ default on the land contract, the Sweets obtained a judgment of strict foreclosure which became absolute hours before the debtors filed their chapter 11 petition. In this adversary proceeding the debtors 1 seek to set aside that foreclosure judgment as a preferential transfer or a fraudulent conveyance to the…
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