SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. HARPER

No. 17802.

273 F.2d 715 (1960)

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Mohawk Petroleum Corporation and Kewanee Oil Company, Appellants, v. George W. HARPER, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. B. Browder, Jr., Midland, Tex., W. P. Dornaus, Tulsa, Okl., for appellants, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy & Laughlin, Midland, Tex., of counsel.

Joe H. Foy, Hardeman, Smith & Foy, San Angelo, Tex., for appellee, Grindstaff & Grindstaff, Ballinger, Tex., of counsel.

Before HUTCHESON, JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

In this case the plaintiffs-appellants charge the appellee with attempting to relitigate in a state court the issues in a suit decided between the same parties in the federal court in 1955; appellants ask for an injunction to restrain the appellee from taking any action in his state court proceeding. The appellee charges that in the instant case appellants are attempting to litigate in the federal court the issues previously raised in a suit...

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