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HOLCOMB v. ÆTNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Nos. 5620, 5621.

255 F.2d 577 (1958)

Leona HOLCOMB, individually; Leona Holcomb, as guardian of the person of Donald George Fleming, a minor; Donald George Fleming, a minor; Frank T. Denham; May Cecilia Denham; Dorothy Lee Denham, a minor; Carolyn Denham Lumley; May Cecilia Denham as guardian of Dorothy Lee Denham, a minor; George Denham; Clarence Denham; Mary Jane Hopkins, nee Wright; and Mary Ellen Cash, Appellants, v. ÆTNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation; Francis X. Rettenmeyer, Executor of the Estate of Joseph A. Rettenmeyer, deceased; F. E. Pence; Virgil F. Sprankle; Grover D. Strother; A. N. Murphy; Justin W. Faherty and First National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City, Appellees. Donald George FLEMING, a minor, individually, and by Leona Holcomb as Guardian; Mary Jane Hopkins; Frank T. Denham; May Cecilia Denham; Dorothy Lee Denham, a minor; Carolyn Denham Lumley; May Cecilia Denham as Guardian of Dorothy Lee Denham, a minor; George Denham; Clarence Denham and Leona Holcomb, individually, Appellants, v. ÆTNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, and F. E. Pence, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn O. Young, Sapulpa, Okl. (John W. Young, David Young and Glenn A. Young, Sapulpa, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellants.

Robert J. Woolsey, Tulsa, Okl. (J. C. Farmer, Otho Flippo and J. B. Bailey of Farmer, Woolsey, Flippo & Bailey, Tulsa, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellee Aetna Life Insurance Company.

Philip M. Landa, Tulsa, Okl., for appellee F. E. Pence.

Sam T. Allen, III Sapulpa, Okl. (Moraul Bosonetto, Sapulpa, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellee Francis X. Rettenmeyer.

Joseph Sharp, Tulsa, Okl., and Robert D. Looney, Oklahoma City, Okl., (Bryan W. Tabor of Rucker, Tabor & Cox; Robert D. Hudson of Hudson, Hudson & Wheaton, Tulsa, Okl.; Looney, Watts, Looney & Nichols and Joseph Rucks of Cochran, Dudley, Fowler, Rucks, Baker & Jopling, Oklahoma City, Okl., with them on the brief), for appellees First National Bank and Trust Company et al.

Before PICKETT, LEWIS and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants have been subjected to an adverse judgment rendered summarily after pre-trial which judgment includes a permanent injunction prohibiting them from further prosecution of asserted claims against appellees now pending or potential in the state courts of Oklahoma. The instant action is one in interpleader and its nature premises the trial court's ruling that the federal court provides the proper forum for the

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