Bohannan
Bohannan v. Ford
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Appellant creditor J.B. Bohannan, Jr., dba JBS Enterprises, LLC (“Bohannan”), appeals a final decision of the United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (the “BAP”). That decision dismissed as moot Bohannan’s appeal of an order, entered by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California (the “BJ”), that construed against him certain provisions of a settlement agreement (the “Agreement”) between Bohannan and Larry A. Ford (the “Trustee”), the Chapter 11 trustee for debtor Twenty-First Century Resources, Inc. (“Twenty-First”). The issue in dispute was whether the Agreement conveyed *431 three particular oil wells as part of a property transfer from the Trustee to Bohannan. Because the BAP did not err in dismissing Bohannan’s appeal as moot, we affirm its decision.
Twenty-First was a Wyoming corporation that was engaged in, inter alia, gas and oil development in the state of Oklahoma. Bohannan performed services for gas and oil companies such as Twenty-First. On March 26, 1999, the Trustee initiating the underlying proceedings in this appeal, asking the Bankruptcy Court to avoid certain unperfected property interests and…