Legal Opinion
Bluff Creek Oil Company and Wabash Oil Company v. Harold J. Green
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 26, 1958No. 17056PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.
In testing whether the summary judgment entered in behalf of an Illinois judgment creditor with an ancillary Illinois order of garnishment was correct, the real issue is the validity of the Illinois judgment entered after default by the nonresident defendants who were purportedly served with process in accordance with the Illinois statutory procedure.
The case comes to us via an interpleader filed by an oil purchasing company under 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1335, 1397, and 1361 seeking to determine to whom Texas oil run payments, deposited by it as a stakeholder in the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- McGee v. International Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Nelson v. MillerIllinois Supreme Court · 1957
- Bruce Construction Corporation v. United States of America for Use of Westinghouse Electric Supply CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- Funkhouser v. J. B. Preston Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1933
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1965
- Lone Star Motor Import, Inc. v. Citroen Cars CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Mr. And Mrs. A. T. Stanga v. McCormick Shipping CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Vance M. Thompson. Jr. William Hadley Thompson W. Dane Clay W. Dane Clay, Trustee and R. Mike Butner v. Ecological Science CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970
- Mladinich v. KohnMississippi Supreme Court · 1966
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