In re Reading Tube Corp.

OPINION

THOMAS M. TWARDOWSKI, Bankruptcy Judge.

Presently before the court is a motion filed by movant, Francisco J. Ortiz, a/k/a Francis J. Ortiz (“movant”), requesting that we abstain from hearing a lawsuit commenced by movant, prior to this chapter 11 proceeding, against debtor, Reading Tube Corporation (“debtor”), and two other defendants in the United States District Court of Puerto Rico. For the reasons *714outlined hereafter, we deny movant’s motion.1 A brief recitation of the facts follows.

On June 23, 1986, movant filed a complaint in the United States District Court of Puerto Rico against…