SCOTT v. HUNT OIL COMPANY

No. 25415.

398 F.2d 810 (1968)

Marie Beaucum SCOTT, Appellant, v. HUNT OIL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie Baucum Scott, Bossier City, La., pro se.

Robert U. Goodman, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Shreveport, La., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., of counsel, for Supreme Court of Louisiana, Second Circuit Court of Appeal of Louisiana and P. E. Brown, Judge, Second Judicial District Court of Louisiana.

J. R. Goff, Arcadia, La., Goff & Caskey, Arcadia, La., of counsel, for Hunt Oil Co., Placid Oil Co., Caroline Hunt Sands and Haroldson L. Hunt, Jr. Trust Estate. Robert Roberts, III, Shreveport, La., Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, La., of counsel, for General American Oil Co. of Texas.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, DYER, Circuit Judge and GARZA, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Appellant, Mrs. Marie Baucum Scott, now under a sentence of civil contempt for violating an order of the District Court, appeals pro se contending that the Court below erred in ordering her to dismiss with prejudice a suit now pending in the State Courts of Louisiana as a condition for purging herself of contempt. We affirm.

In December of 1965 the District Court entered an order enjoining and prohibiting...

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