In Re Mazama Timber Products, Inc.

63 B.R. 280, 1986 Bankr. LEXIS 5825
CourtUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Oregon
DecidedJune 20, 1986
Docket17-30978
StatusPublished
Cited by1 cases

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In Re Mazama Timber Products, Inc., 63 B.R. 280, 1986 Bankr. LEXIS 5825 (Or. 1986).

Opinion

MEMORANDUM OPINION

POLLY S. WILHARDT, Bankruptcy Judge.

On July 19, 1985, The Oregon Bank (hereinafter TOB) filed a motion for determination of secured status. This filing was the culmination of years of complex business transactions, both pre- and post-petition, between TOB and the debtor (hereinafter Mazama). The motion requests the court to find the extent of TOB’s entitlement to adequate protection and enter an order requiring transfer to it of property sufficient to satisfy that entitlement. The motion does not request the court find any transfer be granted administrative claim *281 status with priority under the provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 507(b). That is because by the terms of the financing order establishing adequate protection for TOB it was granted a first security interest in all pre- and post-petition estate property. Thus any property the court finds the transfer of which is necessary to provide the bank with adequate protection would be transferred to the bank in the form of collateral it already had been granted rather than in the form of a priority administrative expense payment.

The relevant facts on which there is no disagreement are as follows:

1. Mazama filed for relief under Chapter 11 on May 10, 1983.

2. On May 10, 1983, Mazama was indebted to TOB in the principal sum of $12,971,447 plus accrued interest of $1,183,475, plus accrued expenses of $37,-627, for a total of $14,192,549. TOB was an undersecured creditor of this estate on May 10, 1983.

3. To evidence said indebtedness and to secure such obligations, Mazama had, prior to the commencement of this case, executed numerous loan documents, including promissory notes, security agreements and UCC financing statements, and granted to TOB security interests in various assets, including, without limitation, lands, buildings, machinery, equipment, fixtures, trade fixtures, timber, inventories of logs and lumber products, all existing and future accounts, contract rights, chattel papers, documents, instruments, general intangibles, and products and proceeds of the foregoing. TOB’s security interests in such assets were properly perfected.

4. On May 11, 1983, Mazama and TOB entered into a financing order to permit Mazama to use cash collateral and other assets encumbered in favor of TOB for a 90-day period in exchange for Mazama’s commitment to provide adequate protection and to dispose of assets not necessary to its reorganization. At the end of the 90-day period, the parties proceeded as if the financing order had been informally extended.

5. The financing order provided that, among other things, Mazama grant to TOB first and prior security interests in all pre-petition and post-petition property of the estate, including real properties, buildings, timber and timber contracts, all existing and after acquired accounts, accounts receivable, contract rights, chattel paper, general intangibles, rights to payment of kind, including right to tax refunds and rights in and claims under insurance policies and letters of credit, documents, instruments, leases, rents and profits, inventory, machinery, equipment, fixtures and trade fixtures, shares of capital stock, capital equities, and other securities of and in any corporation, and products and proceeds of the foregoing in order to afford to TOB adequate protection for the use of cash collateral and other collateral.

6. The financing order further provided that Mazama would use equipment and facilities only for intended purposes, would keep all purchase contracts and obligations secured thereby current, would maintain the equipment and keep it insured, and would pay TOB $30,000 per month as adequate protection for the use and depreciation of such equipment and facilities; that Mazama would pay TOB for the purpose of providing additional adequate protection interest at the rate of prime plus 4%, or 12%, whichever was lower, upon the outstanding indebtedness (this would amount to $141,-925 per month); that it would reimburse TOB for all costs and expenses incurred by TOB for the documentation of transactions contemplated by the financing order, including attorneys’ fees and filing and recording fees; that it would pay for the costs of appraising real properties and other collateral “subject to the availability of collateral value”; that it would deposit all proceeds of cash collateral in a deposit account and that all such proceeds would be applied to its pre-petition indebtedness to TOB; that it would sell all assets unrelated to and unnecessary for the operations of its veneer plant and its reorganization; that “proceeds shall only be applied to security interests in order of priority. *282 No proceeds shall be applied except to secured debt.”

7. Mazama failed to comply with various provisions of the financing order. It paid a total of $307,492.08 to TOB under its terms.

8. Between May 10, 1983, and April 16, 1984, Mazama was unable to reorganize and suffered substantial losses in the operation of its plants and in certain other operations, including the operation of the Emerald Valley Forrest Inn.

9. On April 16, 1984, pursuant to a settlement agreement entered into by the parties Mazama transferred title to TOB of the following properties:

a. Emerald Valley Forrest Inn
b. Christensen 1,000 A
c. Cunningham
d. Winchester Bay
e. Empire
f. Looney
g. Rock Creek
h. 26 acres of farmland
i. Land Sale Contract on Goshen Mill
j. Cottage Grove.

The agreement provided that the properties would be deeded free and clear of all liens and encumbrances except certain permitted liens and encumbrances having priority over the interest of TOB. All were so deeded except Cottage Grove.

10. Subsequently Mazama defaulted in the performance of its obligations under the settlement agreement. On January 7, 1985, this court entered its order granting TOB’s motion for relief from automatic stay. Such order also required TOB to hold all proceeds it had collected or would collect from post-petition accounts and inventory in a separate interest bearing account pending future court determination of TOB’s secured status and its right to such funds as adequate protection.

11. The court had previously determined the value of the properties subject to the lien of TOB as of the petition date as follows:

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*283 11. As a result of the court’s order granting its motion for relief from automatic stay TOB was able to obtain its interest in the following properties:

a. Creswell Mill
b. Panda Pizza
c. Service Station
d. Cobum
e. Napper
f. Brummet

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