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KINNEAR-WEED CORP. v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

No. 29103.

441 F.2d 631 (1971)

KINNEAR-WEED CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, a Texas corporation (now dissolved and merged into Standard Oil Company, a New Jersey corporation) its successor and/or surviving corporations and its assigns, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 17, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Parks, Gail Borden Tennant, Jr., Houston, Tex., William E. Kinnear, Beaumont, Tex., W. Frank Stickle, Jr., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Garrett R. Tucker, Jr., C. O. Ryan, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

It is impossible to conceive of an issue judges would scrutinize more carefully than one which charges that a brother's breach of judicial ethics has produced a miscarriage of justice. Such an issue puts at stake more than the rights of the immediate litigants; it challenges the even, fair administration of law. Therefore our most attentive examination is commanded. This sensitivity is heightened in the case at bar because he who allegedly prostituted...

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