RIFFE PETROLEUM CO. v. CIBRO SALES CORP.

Nos. 78-1860, 78-1916.

601 F.2d 1385 (1979)

In re RIFFE PETROLEUM COMPANY, etc., et al., debtors in possession, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CIBRO SALES CORP., et al., Defendants-Appellants. CIBRO SALES CORP., etc., et al., Petitioners, v. H. Dale COOK, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Kobayashi, Denver, Colo. (Richard L. Schrepferman, Francis F. Kethcart, A. Edgar Benton and Holme, Roberts & Owen, Denver, Colo., with him on the briefs), for defendants-appellants and petitioners, Cibro Sales Corp., et al.

James D. Fellers, Oklahoma City, Okl. (John Joseph Snider, Margaret McMorrow-Love and Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Denver, Colo., Eugene R. Lippman and Krusen, Evans & Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa., with him on the brief), for defendant-appellant, A. Robert Degen.

Fred S. Nelson, Tulsa, Okl. (Claire Eagan Barrett and Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson, Irvine E. Ungerman, Thomas J. Elkins and Ungerman, Conner, Little, Ungerman & Goodman, Tulsa, Okl., Mark Hulsey, Jr., and Smith, Hulsey, Schwalbe, Jacksonville, Fla. and Nichols, B. Hayden Crawford and Crawford & Jackson, Tulsa, Okl., with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellees and respondent.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, and BREITENSTEIN and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

These companioned cases relate to contempt orders of the United States District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma, for claimed violations of a stay order which it had entered in a pending bankruptcy matter. By proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the appellants and petitioners had secured the arrest of a ship which was under a time charter to one of the debtors. The New Jersey court held that...

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