First City National Bank and Trust Company v. Freddy L. Simmons, and Herman Carter Moody

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the first-filed rule applies based on the allegations in the complaint
• applying the first-filed rule to two concurrent federal actions in the Western District of Oklahoma and this district
• noting the “well-settled principle favoring the forum wherein a [related] suit was first filed”
• noting the “well-settled principle favoring the forum wherein a [related] suit was first filed”
• “Where there are two competing lawsuits, the first suit should have priority, absent the showing of balance of convenience or special circumstances giving priority to the second.”
• no facts or circumstances in the case compelled departure from first-filed rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).