Kenitra, Inc., In re, AGRI-BEEF
| Decision Date | 19 August 1986 |
| Docket Number | No. 85-4068,AGRI-BEEF,85-4068 |
| Citation | 797 F.2d 790 |
| Parties | Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,421 In re KENITRA, INC. ROBERT K. MORROW, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v.CO., Independent Grain Co., and Waldrip Bros., Defendants-Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
David A. Foraker and Brent G. Summers, Greene & Markley, P.C., Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant.
Joan L. Volpert and Christopher L. Reive, Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, Briggs & Ericsson, Lory R. Lybeck, Schwabe, Williamson, Wyatt, Moore & Roberts, and Jack Schwartz, Newcomb, Sabin, Schwartz & Landsverk, Portland, Or., for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Before WALLACE, FERGUSON and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.
Plaintiff Robert K. Morrow, Inc., trustee for the debtor, Kenitra, Inc., appeals the district court's affirmance of the bankruptcy court's dismissal of adversary proceedings against defendants Agri-Beef Co. and Independent Grain Co., and partial dismissal of an adversary proceeding against Waldrip Bros. We affirm.
More than ninety days before creditors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the debtor, the debtor gave checks to the defendants as payments on existing debts. The banks on which the checks were drawn honored them within ninety days of the date of the filing. The trustee filed adversary proceedings to avoid the payments as preferences under 11 U.S.C. Sec. 547(b). The proceeding against Waldrip Bros. involved one check given prior to the ninety-day period but honored within it, and one check given and honored within the period.
The bankruptcy court granted summary judgment for Agri-Beef and Independent Grain, and partial summary judgment for Waldrip Bros. on that part of the claim involving the check given prior to the ninety-day period. The district court consolidated the appeals and affirmed. The trustee filed a timely appeal.
A debtor's payment by check on an existing debt, presented to the bank within a reasonable time and honored by the bank, is deemed made at the time the debtor gave the check to the creditor. Shamrock Golf Co. v. Richcraft, Inc., 680 F.2d 645 (9th Cir.1982); 1 In re Walker Industrial Auctioneers, Inc., 45 B.R. 452 (Bankr.Or.1984) (applying Shamrock Golf ). Payments made on existing debts within ninety days of the filing of the petition are avoidable as preferences. 11 U.S.C. Sec. 547(b). The payments here were not avoidable under section 547: The debtor gave the checks to the defendants before the ninety-day preference period started, the defendants presented...
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