STANDARD OIL CO. v. MILLER

Nos. 2253 and 2287; 2255 and 2288; 2256 and 2289.

3 F.2d 438 (1925)

STANDARD OIL CO. v. MILLER et al. UNITED STATES v. SAME. COMMERCIAL CREDIT CO. v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Supplemental Opinion, January 31, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. R. Conway, Admiralty Atty. U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C. (A. W. W. Woodcock, U. S. Atty., of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for the United States.

Malcolm H. Lauchheimer and John H. Skeen, both of Baltimore, Md. (Sylvan Hayes Lauchheimer, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for Commercial Credit Co.

Hugh H. Obear, of Washington, D. C. (Douglas, Obear & Douglas, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for International Finance Corporation.

George De Forest Lord, of New York City (Lord, Day & Lord, of New York City, on the brief), for John J. Orr & Son.

George W. P. Whip, of Baltimore, Md. (Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, of San Francisco, Cal., and Lord & Whip, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for Standard Oil Co.

Before WOODS and WADDILL, Circuit Judges, and COCHRAN, District Judge.


WOODS, Circuit Judge.

These appeals and petitions to superintend and revise raise difficult questions, some of them not well covered by authority. Strong argument has been adduced against some of the conclusions of the District Court (287 F. 714; 289 F. 145), but after much consideration we are convinced they are sound in reason and sustained by authority.

The view expressed in the opinion of the District Court in 289 F. 145, that an ordinary debt of the United...

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