GAINES v. SUNRAY OIL COMPANY

Nos. 75-1795, 75-1872.

539 F.2d 1136 (1976)

F. C. GAINES, Jr., et al., Appellees, v. SUNRAY OIL COMPANY, Appellant. AMTEL, INC., Appellant, v. E. Paul WILKINSON and J. Howard Marshall, as Individuals and as the Executive Associates, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert McHenry, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant Sunray Oil Co.; McHenry, Bryant & Polk, Michael A. Skipper, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

David M. Sudbury, Houston, Tex., for appellees F. C. Gaines et al.

Philip S. Anderson and Gus B. Walton, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees William G. Vandever, F. C. Gaines, Jr., Frank Weatherman, Miles Carmichael and Robert Danek.

Kenneth Cobb, Lincoln, Neb., for appellees Executive Associates et al.; Nelson, Harding, Marchetti, Leonard & Tate, Lincoln, Neb., and Randy Coleman, Howell, Price, Howell & Barron, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

Joe Bell, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant Amtel, Inc.

Before VOGEL, Senior Circuit Judge, and HEANEY and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals arise out of a statutory interpleader action which is presently pending in the District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.1 Review is sought of certain provisions of a pretrial order entered on July 30, 1975. In No. 75-1872, Amtel, Inc., the plaintiff-stakeholder, challenges the dismissal of certain defendants from the action. In No....

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