AVANT PETROLEUM, INC. v. BANQUE PARIBAS

No. 511, Docket 87-7786.

853 F.2d 140 (1988)

AVANT PETROLEUM, INC. and Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc., Plaintiffs, v. BANQUE PARIBAS, BP North America Petroleum Inc., and Crysen Trading and Marketing, Inc., Defendants, Banque Paribas, Defendant-Appellee, BP North America Petroleum Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin H. Warren, New York City (Bruce R. Zirinsky, Jacqueline Marcus, Jonathan S. Greenberg, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

James H. Carter, New York City (Jonathan S. Geldzahler, Bonna L. Horovitz, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Before TIMBERS, KEARSE and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.


KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

In this interpleader action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1335 and 2361 (1982), defendant BP North America Petroleum Inc. ("BP") appeals from so much of a final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Edward Weinfeld, Judge, as awarded $6,300,000 of the interpleader fund to defendant Banque Paribas ("Paribas") instead of to BP 652 F...

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