Gorsky v. D'Avignon (In re D'Avignon)

28 B.R. 91, 1983 Bankr. LEXIS 6904
CourtUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Vermont
DecidedFebruary 2, 1983
DocketBankruptcy No. 81-33; Adv. No. 82-0089
StatusPublished

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Bluebook
Gorsky v. D'Avignon (In re D'Avignon), 28 B.R. 91, 1983 Bankr. LEXIS 6904 (Vt. 1983).

Opinion

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON THE RE-ARGUMENT OF THOMAS GOR-SKY OF HIS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

CHARLES J. MARRO, Bankruptcy Judge.

MEMORANDUM

On December 6, 1982, the Plaintiff, Thomas Gorsky, by his attorney, filed a Motion for Re-Argument of his Motion for Summary Judgment of June 11, 1982. The basis for the Plaintiff’s motion is his belief that “the Court has misconstrued several undisputed facts” in the Court’s Memorandum and Order of November 24, 1982. 25 B.R. 838 (Bkrtcy). The facts which the [92]*92Plaintiff asserts are undisputed concern the accounting of assets of the Debtor. The two areas which the Plaintiff asserts that the Court misconstrued the “undisputed facts” are; 1) the Plaintiff’s charging the Defendant with proceeds of sales of corn to Jim Minor, but improperly crediting the Defendant for the resale proceeds thereof; and 2), the misapprehension that a number of truckloads of corn transported by Pierre Page never entered the Defendant’s records, and therefore, the Defendant never had those assets.

In reaching the instant decision on the Plaintiff’s re-argument, the Court will review the two areas of asserted “undisputed facts.”

I. THE SALES OF CORN TO JAMES MINOR

In support of its motion for re-argument, the Plaintiff asserts that the Court erred in its statement that the corn sold to James Minor was obtained from the Plaintiff.

As stated in the Memorandum and Order of the Court:

A second weakness in the plaintiff’s conclusions arises from the unrecorded resale by the debtor to Jim Minor. The debtor stated that the transactions of November 12, 1980 and November 13, 1980, being the purchases of three truckloads of corn from the plaintiff were to complete the resale to Jim Minor. (D.D. 106-107) These three purchases were reflected in the plaintiff’s records, however they were not recorded in the debtor’s check register. (D.D. 45)

As stated by the Plaintiff in its Motion for re-argument:

By the defendant’s own testimony however the corn which the defendant resold to James Minor was purchased from a Mr. Lathrop, a New York farmer. The truckloads of corn involved in the Latrop (SIC)-D’Avignon-Minor transactions were strictly “off the books.” For those loads of corn, D’Avignon, by his own testimony paid Mr. Lathrop by cashier’s check from the resale proceeds. Mr. Lathrop for these loads of corn, was not paid by a check drawn on defendant’s business account. (Deposition of Leonard D’Avignon, pages 45-46)

While the Plaintiff has contended that the facts concerning the above sale are “undisputed,” a review of the deposition of Leonard D’Avignon seems to contradict this alleged lack of dispute. Plaintiff relies on pages 45-46 of D’Avignon’s deposition where it states:

Witness: After — As you know, after everybody got a hold of my checkbook here, it was a total disaster. I couldn’t put — Anyways, I took a check — I did not deposit it in my account, I directly cashed it at the bank.
Q. Who was the cheek from?
A. It was from James Minor.
Q. And you cashed the check directly?
A. Yes, and I got — I believe I got two certified checks.
Q. Or cashier’s checks, maybe?
A. Yes.
Q. And who did you give those to?
A. One of them I had to pay for corn.
Q. To which farmer?
A. Lathrop.

However, as “undisputed” as the Plaintiff asserts the “wash” sale to be, the Plaintiff has failed to consider or direct the Court’s attention to the disputing testimony found at pages 105 through 107 of the deposition.

On pages 106-107 of the deposition, the Plaintiff was questioning Mr. D’Avignon regarding purchases from the Plaintiff, reflected in Plaintiff’s exhibit 5. As stated in the deposition:

Q. A load that you took out on November 11th, fifty-thousand three hundred pounds. Do you know where that went?
A. I took our myself. That went to Leo.
Q. Leo Bean? Another load on November 11th, Pierre Page. Do you know where that went?
A. No I can’t — I don’t know where it went.
[93]*93Q. Three loads on November — two on November 12th and one on November 13th, Harold Manning. Do you know where they would have gone?
A. Two on the 12th.
Q. Right.
A. One on the 13th.
Q. All by Harold Manning
A. I think I had one or two to bring to Brandon to finish him up, and it probably went there
Q. Who was in Brandon?
A. Minor. I could ask him and find out and — I think he would remember.

While the above statements from the Defendant tend to show that some of the corn sales to James Minor were from the corn purchased from the Plaintiff; it is more important to note that the facts are not as clearly “undisputed” as alleged by the Plaintiff. As such, there still appears a genuine issue of fact as to warrant the denial of the motion for summary judgment. As such, the Court’s Memorandum and Order of November 24, 1982 should stand.

II. LEO BEAN PURCHASES

The Plaintiff, again, asserts that the Court was under a misapprehension regarding certain “undisputed facts” regarding six truckloads of corn handled by Marcel Page and his son, Pierre.

The Plaintiff has asserted that the facts regarding the deliveries to Leo Bean are “undisputed.” These facts being that:

“1. Of the six truckloads of corn referred to by the court, four, not one were sold to Leo Bean
2. And the Defendant received the full sale proceeds therefor and deposited them to his business checking, account.
3. The undisputed depositions and documentary evidence in the form of weight slips disclose that at least the following loads were delivered to Mr. Leo Bean.
DATE WEIGHT DRIVER
11/5/80 48180 lbs. Pierre Page
11/6/80 48500 “ Pierre Page
WEIGHT DRIVER DATE
48660 “ Pierre Page 11/7/80
54920 “ Harold Manning 11/10/80

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