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STANDARD OIL CO. v. HALL

Nos. 304-306, 308.

24 F.2d 455 (1927)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF LOUISIANA v. HALL, Commissioner of Finance and Taxation of Tennessee, et al., and three other cases.

District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

August 20, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. D. Minor, of Memphis, Tenn., for complainant Standard Oil Co.

John B. Keeble, of Nashville, Tenn., and Harry T. Klein, of New York City, for complainant Texas Co.

Clinton H. McKay, of Memphis, Tenn., and Earl L. Beatty, of New York City, for complainant Pan-American Petroleum Corporation.

McDonald & McDonald, Robert W. Hall, and Prather S. McDonald, all of Memphis, Tenn., for complainant National Refining Co.

L. D. Smith, Attorney General, of Tennessee, Charles T. Cates, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn., H. N. Leech, of Clarksville, Tenn., and J. J. Lynch, of Chattanooga, Tenn., for defendants.

Before MOORMAN, Circuit Judge, and HICKS and GORE, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

These causes are submitted on motions for temporary injunctions enjoining defendants, who are officers of the state of Tennessee, from enforcing an act of the Tennessee Legislature (Acts 1927, c. 22), which undertakes to regulate the prices at which gasoline shall be sold in the state. The jurisdiction of the court as such rests upon constitutional grounds, as well as upon diversity of citizenship with the requisite amount involved. The equity jurisdiction...

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