KOCH REFINING v. FARMERS UNION CENT. EXCHANGE, INC.

No. 86-1102.

831 F.2d 1339 (1987)

KOCH REFINING, Koch Fuels, Conoco, Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Tosco Corporation, Tenneco Oil Company, Moore-McCormick Petroleum, Gulf States Oil & Refining, Texaco, Inc., and Getty Refining and Marketing Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FARMERS UNION CENTRAL EXCHANGE, INC., Farmers Petroleum Cooperative, Inc., FCX, Inc., Landmark, Inc., Land O'Lakes, Inc., Midland Cooperatives, Incorporated, MFA Oil Company, and Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Mason, Levit & Mason, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

David M. Schiffman, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


GRANT, Senior District Judge.

This case comes to us on appeal from the district court's dismissal of a declaratory action brought by eleven petroleum corporations (oil companies), 56 B.R. 2420. The oil companies, appellants herein, had regularly exchanged petroleum products with Energy Cooperative, Inc. (ECI), an Indiana oil refinery now in bankruptcy. In their complaint they sought a declaration that, inter alia, the Member-Owners of ECI were the alter ego...

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