Legal Opinion
Mottaz v. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Pulitzer Publishing Co. (In Re Murphy)
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided January 14, 1997No. 19-40054PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARRY L. LESSEN, Bankruptcy Judge.
The issue before the Court is whether the Trustee may recover funds withheld by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch when the newspaper forced an assignment of the Debtor’s home delivery route back to the newspaper.
The material facts are not in dispute. The Debtor, Michael Murphy, entered into a home delivery service agreement with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on August 31, 1990. Pursuant to this agreement, the Debtor agreed to deliver the daily and Sunday St. Louis Post-Dispatch to the newspaper’s home delivery customers in a specified territory as a…
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