Legal Opinion
United States v. Arizona Fuels Corporation and Eugene Dalton, President, Tenneco Oil Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 1984No. 83-1649PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
■ Tenneco Oil Company appeals from an order requiring it to repay to the Receiver of Arizona Fuels Corporation funds received as advance payments for crude oil and retained as setoffs of pre-receivership debts. Tenneco argues that the district court erroneously rejected Tenneco’s contractual and equitable right to setoff, improperly used summary proceedings to decide whether to issue the order, and lacked statutory jurisdiction over the funds.
I. FACTS.
The United States won a $38,000,000 judgment against Arizona Fuels in July, 1981. On June 9, 1982; at the request of the…
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