JORDAN v. INDEPENDENT ENERGY CORP.

No. CA3-76-1309-F.

446 F.Supp. 516 (1978)

Harold T. JORDAN et al. v. INDEPENDENT ENERGY CORPORATION, Sanford Dvorin and Patricia Dvorin. INDEPENDENT ENERGY CORPORATION v. CENTURY NATURAL GAS CORPORATION.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

As Corrected March 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel Held, Durant, Mankoff, Davis & Wolens, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.

John O. Jones, Mike Riddle, Baker, Glast, Riddle & Tuttle, Dallas, Tex., for defendant Independent Energy Corp.

Glenn E. Heatherly, Rhodes, Doscher, Chalk & Heatherly, Abilene, Tex., for third party defendant Century Natural Gas Corp.

Richard N. Currin, Bruner, Dorfman, Currin, Matlock & Hardin, Dallas, Tex., for temporary receiver.

Fred Bruner, Bruner, Dorfman, Currin, Matlock and Hardin, Dallas, Tex., General Counsel, for temporary receiver.

Kenneth J. Mighell, U. S. Atty., and Stafford Hutchinson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for Internal Revenue Service.

Arch A. Beasley, Biggers, Lloyd, Biggers, Beasley & Amerine, Dallas, Tex., for General Motors Acceptance Corp.

Daniel C. Stewart, Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion, Dallas, Tex., for petitioning creditors in bankruptcy.


ROBERT W. PORTER, District Judge.

This case resolves a question of first impression in this circuit1 by deciding under what conditions a federal district court may prevent the filing of a voluntary or involuntary petition in bankruptcy by the issuance of a federal blanket receivership injunction.2 Plaintiffs Harold T. Jordan, Philip C. Bangle, James A. Fauci and...

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