892 F2d 850 Robinson Brothers Drilling Inc Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp v. G Lowrey

892 F.2d 850

21 Collier Bankr.Cas.2d 1405, Bankr. L. Rep. P 73,090
In re ROBINSON BROTHERS DRILLING, INC., and Robinson
Brothers Drilling Company, Debtors.
MANUFACTURERS HANOVER LEASING CORP.; Halliburton Company;
Gray Tool Company; and Ponder Fishing Tools,
Inc., Defendants-Appellants,
v.
Harold G. LOWREY, Chapter 11 Trustee, for the Estate of the
Debtors, Plaintiff-Appellee.

No. 88-2982.

United States Court of Appeals,
Tenth Circuit.

Nov. 9, 1989.
Rehearing Denied March 22, 1990.

Theodore Gewertz (Lawrence P. King, of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City; James Vogt, Norman E. Reynolds, and V. Burns Hargis, of Reynolds, Ridings & Hargis, Oklahoma City, Okl., Richard Gerard, of Mfrs. Hanover Leasing Corp., New York City, Robert N. Sheets, of Phillips, McFall, McVay, Sheets, Juras & Lovelace, Doneen Douglas Jones, of Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, and Bruce Kerr, of Mahaffey & Gore, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for defendants-appellants.

Gary L. Morrissey of Kenan & Peterson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff-appellee.

John J. Gill, General Counsel, and Michael F. Crotty, Associate General Counsel, of the American Bankers Ass'n, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.

Before TACHA, BARRETT, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

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We affirm the judgment of the district court below and adopt its opinion, which is published at 97 B.R. 77.