Legal Opinion
Amoco Overseas Oil Co. v. Compagnie Nationale Algerienne de Navigation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 19, 1979No. 1020, Docket 79-7135PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GURFEIN, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Hon. Charles H. Tenney, Judge) refusing appellant’s motion under F.R. Civ.P. 60(b) to reopen a previous default judgment entered on behalf of appellees. Amoco Overseas Oil Co. v. Compagnie Nationale Algerienne, 459 F.Supp. 1242 (S.D.N.Y. 1978). Appellant broadly argues that there was no jurisdiction to enter the original default judgment and that in any event the District Judge should have set the judgment aside.
This case is a procedural “comedy of errors.” In the summer of 1976…
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