RIVERSIDE OIL CO. v. HITCHCOCK

No. 632.

190 U.S. 316 (1903)

UNITED STATES ex rel. RIVERSIDE OIL COMPANY v. HITCHCOCK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jefferson Chandler and Mr. Shirley C. Ward for plaintiff in error. Mr. John M. Thurston, Mr. William C. Prentiss, Mr. M.A. Ballinger, Mr. T.C. Van Ness and Mr. Horace F. Clark were on the brief.

Mr. Special Assistant John S. Chapman for defendant in error. Mr. Assistant Attorney General Van Devanter and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Glassie were on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

We have set out in the foregoing statement of facts, at very great length, a large portion of the contents of the petition and answer in this case. It has been done for the purpose of showing by the record itself the questions of law arising therefrom. Upon a perusal of the record it appears that those questions are not merely formal ones nor are they so plain as...

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