AETNA CAS. & SUR. CO. v. AHRENS

Civ. A. No. 74-H-1288.

414 F.Supp. 1235 (1975)

AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Donald AHRENS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

Supplemental Memorandum and Order May 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Sales, Thomas P. Sartwelle, Fulbright & Crooker, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Aetna.

Max Jennings, Clawson & Jennings, Houston, Tex., for International Ins. and Dutchman Seafood.

William A. Harrison, Ross, Griggs & Harrison, Houston, Tex., for Allstar Ins. and Eddie's Oysters.

Tom Fillion, Farr & Fillion, Houston, Tex., for Angelo's.

Don Karotkin, Houston, Tex., for Robert H. Burroughs.

Michael Perrin, Fisher, Roch & Gallager, Houston, Tex., for Donald, Hazel and K. J. Ahrens, A. B. and Randy Alexander, George Allen, Charlotte Faye Fowley and Thomas Capo, Robert E. Looney, Waldo Luedemann, JoAnn Northcutt, John Peveto, John Pierce, Johnny and Patricia Sherman, D. H. and Larke Shuerbert and T. A. Stojanik.

Dale Friend, Kronzer, Abraham & Watkins, Houston, Tex., for Audrey and Paul Foster, Dolores and Kerry Irwin, Mark McDonald, Richard Pregeant, Terry W. Riley and Jill Tribe.

Irving H. Weissman, Houston, Tex., for Bobby Warren Long.

Jarrold Glazer, Lohmann & Glazer, Houston, Tex., for Wayne Liles and William Marks.

Jim Vratis, Wm. C. Meyer, Houston, Tex., for Michael Stanley.

John Segelquist, Houston, Tex., for Russell Kirchner, William E. Thomas and Malcolm Young.

Wm. G. Eyres, Kagay, Turner & Eyres, Dallas, Tex., for Wayne Liles.

Donald Maierson, Kahn & Maierson, Houston, Tex., for Joseph Cole, Alan Joseph Cooper and William Marks.

Robert L. Sharp, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Darwin Starling.

Donald R. Hallmark, Boswell, O'Toole, Davis & Pickering, Houston, Tex., for Ralph Schwegman.

Thomas R. Beech, Houston, Tex., for Jack and Lucy Roth.

Jarrold A. Glazer, Houston, Tex., for Malcolm Martin.

Bryan D. Coleman, Houston, Tex., for Keith D. deFehr and Ronda Giannukos.

Dan C. Rhodes, Houston, Tex., for George Pasek, John Pierce and James R. Russell.

Hamilton Schrauff, pro se.

Harold Lloyd, Lloyd & Hoppess, Inc., Houston, Tex., for Diann Thomason and Ken Wylie.

Joe W. Steelman, Houston, Tex., for Edith M. Senegal.

J. Eugene Clements, Sewell, Junell & Riggs, Houston, Tex., for Helen Greenwood.

Joe L. Draughn, Draughn & Craig, Houston, Tex., for Arthurene and David Huntington.

Marvin B. Peterson, Combs & Archer, Houston, Tex., for George and James Hogan and Jerry Pancherz.

Virgil H. Barfield, Gilleland & Barfield, Houston, Tex., for Richard R. Gillespie.

W. Dan Myers, Dearman, Myers & Brown, Houston, Tex., for David Esbeck, Robert Pierce and Frank Tucker.

Joe G. Roady, Cox, Pakenham & Roady, Houston, Tex., for Lum Twillingerr.

Andrew L. Todesco, Miller, Gann & Perdue, Houston, Tex., for Rachel Gaskin and William J. Neill.

Willlam G. Nedd, Tynes, Michalek, Nedd & Riepen, Houston, Tex., for Charles W. Dent, III and Roger Jasso.

E. E. Christensen, Houston, Tex., for Donald L. Russo.

Harry S. Jones, Bellaire, Tex., for Jack Domec and Harlon E. Martin, Jr.

Anson D. Phipps, Lucas & Hudson, Houston, Tex., for Michael Frederik Holm, Jim Kenamore, Tom Kiger and Elizabeth Pell.

Horace F. Brown, Brown & Haden, Houston, Tex., for Alan Joseph Cooper and Andrew Perla.

George M. Kuhn, Dickson & Associates, Inc., Houston, Tex., for John A. Lothman.

Barry Allan Brown, Schlanger, Cook, Cohn & Mills, Houston, Tex., for Robert Parr.

Lawrence L. Lay, pro se.

M. W. Wade, Jr., pro se.

Donald D. Lusk, McDaniel, Hall, Parsons & Conerly, Birmingham, Ala., for N. G. and Mrs. W. G. Wynn.

John W. Turner, Miller, Gann & Perdue, Houston, Tex., for Delano Austin, Russel E. Hanson, Carl L. and JoAnn Northcutt and Sara Paggi.

William Amaimo, Houston, Tex., for Joann Ybarra and Tony Tbarra.

Raymond F. Burgert, Jr., W. D. Bonham, Bonham, Carrington & Fox, Houston, Tex., for Ralph Carlson and R. E. McDaniel.

Jack C. Ogg, Houston, Tex., for Joe Wiatt.

Charles H. Morgan, Houston, Tex., for Robert Williams.

John L. Moore, Stephenson, Moore & Edwards, Inc., Houston, Tex., for L. Q. Millerder.

Byron D. Coleman, Law Offices of Gus J. Zgourides, Houston, Tex., for Keith D. deFehr.

Jim S. Adler, Hazen, Graml & Adler, Houston, Tex., for John Albert Goodson.

Bruce K. Bornefeld, Houston, Tex., for William K. Watkins.

John M. O'Quinn, Riddle, Murphrey, O'Quinn & Cannon, Ellis F. Morris, Houston, Tex., for Jerry Malone, Jerrold Robin, and Charles T. and Phyllis Spear.

Richard W. Burns, Law Offices of Fred Parks, Houston, Tex., for Leonard Berry.

J. Julian Moore, Houston, Tex., for Richard Casas.

William B. Schaeffer, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Joseph Lowe.

Ed Carrithers, Houston, Tex., for Michael Euler, B. Deal, and Robert Hill.

John H. Holloway, Holloway & Rhem, Houston, Tex., for Jerry Cowan and Ray Hill.

Damon R. Capps, Jones & Capps, Houston, Tex., for Art Custer, Lyle Eberly and Malcolm Young.

William M. Laubach, Houston, Tex., for Kathy Engel.

Wayne H. Paris, Houston, Tex., for Ronald McCormick.

Don Karotkin, Houston, Tex., for David Henry and Perry Woelke.

Harry S. Jones, Bellaire, Tex., for James D. and Karen Marie Driskell.

Harvill E. Weller, Jr., Krist & McConnico, Houston, Tex., for Bob and Jane Viccellio, Keith, James R. Lewis and Gale Van Hoy.

Larry T. Hester, Houston, Tex., for Richard B. Cook.

Charles R. Clements, Houston, Tex., for Esther Rust.

Wm. G. Lowerre, Houston, Tex., for Joe and Shirley Daugherty.

Lynn C. Hensley, Houston, Tex., for Annette Mosier.

Frank Stovall, Houston, Tex., for F. J. Dryer, Fred Gale and Kenneth Tunnel.

Steve Elder, Houston, Tex., for Joe Allen Nelson.

Gene W. Frohbieter, Houston, Tex., for Edward A. Kurth.

Sherwood Gaines, Gaines & Merrill, Houston, Tex., for Pauline Morgenstern.

Joseph W. Amick, Kansas City, Mo., for Marsha and Thomas Paton.

Joseph L. Waitz, Waitz, Weigand & Downer, Houma, La., Ray C. Muirhead, Houston, Tex., for Karl Geist.

L. A. Greene, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Darlene Shelton.

Charles A. Moore, Reynolds, White, Allen & Cook, Houston, Tex., for Mary K. Boudreaux.

Daniel Roberts, William E. Hall, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Ronald DiCamillo and James Milo.

James M. Seabolt, Houston, Tex., for Ronald Clements.

Monroe Northrop, Austin, Arnett, Northrop, Kirkpatrick & Steber, Houston, Tex., for Gary Berkenkamp, Morgan Minter and Tom Wharton.

John D. Miller, Miller, Bronn & Brummett, Long Beach, Cal., for Martin-Decker Co.

John H. Holloway, Holloway & Rhem, Houston, Tex., for Jerry Cowan and Ray Hill.

Ernest A. Lucas, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Robert Scott.

Burke Martin, Saccomanno, Clegg, Martin & Kipple, Houston, Tex., for Lynn Brennan and Paul H. Kramer.

Ben H. Schleider, Jr., Dillingham, Schleider & Masquelette, Houston, Tex., for Greg Beloit, Churchill Colburn, Arthur J. Connally, Lonnie Kessler, Frederick Schooley and Edwin and Justine Smith.

John L. Mendoza, Houston, Tex., for Jerry Montgomery.

Robert F. Stein, Jamail & Gano, Houston, Tex., for Roy E. Cletcher, Jack Kendrigks, Norma McMillan, Bobby Rankin, Terrie Lynn Smith, Stephen F. Spencer, Jerome and Shirley Washington and Linda Davis.

Thomas M. Whitworth, Houston, Tex., for Jacqueline Wade.

Terry Sears, Nations & Cross, Houston, Tex., for Andy and Carolyn Murry and Kyle Patton.

George M. Cason, Jr., League City, Tex., for Edith Walters Meeks.

J. Donald Bowen, Helm, Pletcher, Hogan & Burrow, Houston, Tex., for Dana and Max Brinson, Raymond Lee Chapman, Bob Daniel, Granville Duke, Mike Grimes, Thomas Hughes, Kenneth L. Kramer, Jerry Logan, Armando Medina, Donald Myers, Angel Valvari and Samuel Allen Miller.

Gordon J. Kroll, Houston, Tex., for Tom Wolf.

Thomas M. DeWitt, Crouch & Crouch, Alvin, Tex., for Larry and Darlene Shelton.

Brenda Keen, Haynes & Fullenweider, Houston, Tex., for Richard Andrew Nelson and Levy Dolan Rankin.

Donald G. Havlick, Houston, Tex., for William Earl Kirtley.

Hugh J. Plummer, Brown, Bradshaw & Plummer, Houston, Tex., for Ronnie Factor.

Ray Elvin Speece, Houston, Tex., for Edward Furrate.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CARL O. BUE, Jr., District Judge.

The Court has carefully considered the motions for rehearing. After extensive review of the able legal memoranda as well as lengthy independent research into the jurisprudence relative to actions in the nature of interpleader, the Court is persuaded that its Memorandum and Order of November 1, 1974, should be, and it hereby is, withdrawn in its entirety, and substituted therefor is the following Memorandum...

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