UNION PLANTERS NAT. BANK v. WORLD ENERGY SYSTEMS

Nos. 86-5122, 86-5124.

816 F.2d 1092 (1987)

UNION PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WORLD ENERGY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATES; Nerco, Inc.; North Carolina National Bank; P & O Falcoal, Inc.; Cooper Stevedoring Company, Inc.; Western Alabama Mining Company; Bertel Shipping Company, Inc.; Johnstone, Adams, May, Howard and Hill; and J.M. Jackson and Associates, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, v. TEXAS CHARTERING, INC. and Hemmert International Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. TEXAS CHARTERING, INC., and Hemmert International Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WORLD ENERGY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATES, INC.; Wesa, Inc.; Paul Liu; Ed Bales; Certain Funds, Letters of Credit, Assets, Accounts, Credits, Effects and Property, Tangible and Intangible of Defendants; Union Planters National Bank; and P & O Falcoal, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 15, 1987.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Cheavens (argued) Baker and Botts, Houston, Tex., Jef Feibelman, Burch, Porter and Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Marion S. Boyd, Jr., Thomas J. Walsh, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., James Newsom, Hanover, Walsh, Jalenak & Blair, Memphis, Tenn., for Nerco, Inc., defendants-appellees.

Robert D. Dearborn (argued), Charlotte, N.C., for North Carolina Nat. Bank.

Dennis B. Ragsdale, Kennerly, Montgomery & Finley, P.C., Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Thomas S. Rue, Mobile, Ala., Thomas J. Walsh, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., Marion S. Boyd, Thomas W. Bell, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for P & O Falcoal.

Before JONES and RYAN, Circuit Judges, and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge.


NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Texas Chartering, Inc., and Hemmert International Corp. (Texas/Hemmert), appeal from the district court's entry of summary judgment in two actions: No. 86-5122 (the "interpleader action"), and No. 86-5124 (the "attachment action"), 642 F.Supp. 50. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm both judgments.

Defendant-appellee World Energy Systems Associates, Inc. (WESA) is an...

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