PAULEY PETROLEUM INC. v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY


239 A.2d 629 (1968)

PAULEY PETROLEUM INC., a corporation of the State of Delaware, Pauley Pan American Petroleum, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware, and American Independent Oil Company De Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a corporation of the Republic of Mexico, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

January 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Albert Young, H. James Conaway, Jr., and Ben T. Castle, of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, and Orris R. Hedges, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

James M. Tunnell, Jr., and William S. Megonigal, Jr., of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, and Joseph C. Hutcheson, III, and Finis E. Cowan, of Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Houston, Tex., for appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.


WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

This an appeal from the denial of a preliminary injunction which would have required Continental Oil Company (hereinafter "Continental"), a corporation of the State of Delaware, defendant below, to cause its wholly-owned subsidiary, Mexofina S.A. de C.V. (hereinafter "Mexofina"), a Mexican corporation, to cease the prosecution of an action filed in the First District Court for Civil Matters of the...

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