HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. REAGAN

No. 19498.

311 F.2d 576 (1962)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Beverly L. REAGAN, Individually and as next friend of John Stephen Reagan, a minor, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Brown, Jr., Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., S. G. Kolius, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellant.

James J. Hippard, Frank G. Harmon, David A. Gibson, Houston, Tex., Thompson, Hippard, & Gibson, Houston, Tex., of counsel, for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Humble Oil & Refining Company from an order staying all further proceedings on Humble's petition for exoneration from, or limitation of, liability, 46 U.S.C. § 183, and vacating a previous order which had restrained proceedings in any other court.

The district judge in his opinion,1 on which the order appealed from is based, dealt carefully and fully, and we...

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