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HESS OIL VIRGIN ISLANDS CORP. v. UOP, INC.

No. 75-C-383-C.

447 F.Supp. 381 (1978)

HESS OIL VIRGIN ISLANDS CORP., a United States Virgin Islands Corporation, Federal Insurance Company, a New Jersey Corporation, and Insurance Company of North America, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. UOP, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Word Industries Pipe Fabricating, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, and Fisher Controls Company, a subsidiary of Monsanto Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants, v. The LITWIN CORPORATION, a corporation, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Oklahoma.

March 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Witous, Clausen, Miller, Gorman, Caffrey & Witous, Chicago, Ill., Alfred B. Knight, Dan Wagner, Tulsa, Okl., Douglas L. Inhofe, John S. Athens, Tulsa, Okl., for plaintiffs. John Tucker, Tulsa, Okl., for Litwin. Douglas E. Friedman, Woodbridge, N. J., for Hess.

Richard Carpenter, Tulsa, Okl., for Fisher Cont.

Dale F. McDaniel, John Osmond, Tulsa, Okl., John J. Costanzo, Arthur D. Deckelman, Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph C. Mason, Jr., Des Plaines, Ill., for UOP.

ORDER

COOK, District Judge.

The Court has before it for consideration the motion of the plaintiffs to transfer this action to the United States District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). This action was brought to recover damages allegedly resulting from an explosion which occurred at an oil refinery owned by plaintiff Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp. (HOVIC) and located in St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. Plaintiffs...

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