WEST VIRGINIA OIL & GAS CO. v. GEORGE E. BREECE LBR. CO.

Civ. A. No. 3690.

104 F.Supp. 5 (1952)

WEST VIRGINIA OIL & GAS CO., Inc. v. GEORGE E. BREECE LUMBER CO., Inc., et al.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

April 19, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hudson, Potts, Bernstein & Davenport, George M. Snellings, Jr., A. Milling Bernstein, James H. Trousdale, Jr., Monroe, La., for plaintiff.

W. M. Phillips, Freyer, Goode, Nelson & Freyer, Shreveport, La., for defendant.


DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to enjoin defendants from prosecuting a suit in the State Court on the ground that the latter proceeding is an attempt to relitigate issues settled in a judgment of this court in a former case. Jurisdiction is invoked under the provisions of the Act of June 25, 1948, 28 U.S.C.A. § 2283, reading as follows:

"Stay of State court proceedings. — A court of the United States may not grant an injunction to stay...

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