WIRTZ v. OCALA GAS COMPANY

No. 20556.

336 F.2d 236 (1964)

W. Willard WIRTZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Appellant, v. OCALA GAS COMPANY, Inc., West Florida Natural Gas Company, Inc., Gulf Natural Gas Corporation and H. M. Lewis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bessie Margolin, Assoc. Sol. of Labor, Beate Bloch, Charles Donahue, Sol. of Labor, Robert E. Nagle, Warren M. Laddon, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., Beverley R. Worrell, Regional Atty., for appellant.

J. McHenry Jones, Pensacola, Fla., Hugh R. Dowling, Albert S. C. Millar, Jr., Austin, Basford & Millar, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellees.

Before RIVES and JONES, Circuit Judges, and BOOTLE, District Judge.


BOOTLE, District Judge:

This appeal by the Secretary is from the District Court's dismissal of a petition to have West Florida Natural Gas Company, Inc., Gulf Natural Gas Corporation, and H. M. Lewis, hereafter referred to as Appellees, adjudged in civil contempt for violations of a consent decree entered by the District Court on January 2, 1959.

The original injunction suit was filed on October 6, 1958, against Ocala Gas Company, Inc. (hereafter Ocala) seeking...

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