IN RE WHITE STAR REFINING CO.

Nos. 7246, 7370.

74 F.2d 269 (1934)

In re WHITE STAR REFINING CO. STATE OF TEXAS et al. v. PORTER. SAME v. PORTER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis E. Gresham and Everett L. Looney, both of Austin, Tex., for appellants.

R. W. Haynie, of Abilene, Tex., and F. D. Wright, of Cisco, Tex., Ellis Douthit, of Sweetwater, Tex., and E. L. Harwell, of Abilene, Tex., for appellees Porter and others.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

These appeals, successively taken in reference to the same bankruptcy, vividly illustrate the embarrassments which may result from a failure scrupulously to follow the rules of comity between state and federal courts. Not only have the ministerial officers of the courts come into collision and been each enjoined by the other's court, but a judge himself has been impleaded and enjoined from further action, along with the state of Texas and her...

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