SNEED v. SHAFFER OIL & REFINING CO.

Nos. 8409-8412.

35 F.2d 21 (1929)

SNEED, Treasurer of the State of Oklahoma, v. SHAFFER OIL & REFINING CO., and three other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

September 30, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellant.

S. B. Flynn, of Oklahoma City, Okl. (G. Earl Shaffer, of Tulsa, Okl., and Rainey, Flynn, Green & Anderson, of Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief), for appellee Shaffer Oil & Refining Co.

Victor C. Mieher and R. Y. Stevenson, both of Tulsa, Okl., for appellee Amerada Petroleum Corporation.

John H. Brennan, G. J. Neuner, and Thomas J. Casey, all of Tulsa, Okl., Foster V. Phipps, of Muskogee, Okl., and Jack Paden, of Tahlequah, Okl., for appellee Barnsdall Oil Co.

J. C. Monnet, Jr., of Oklahoma City, Okl. (B. A. Ames, of Oklahoma City, Okl., John R. Ramsey and J. H. Hill, both of Tulsa, Okl., and Ames, Cochran, Ames & Monnet, of Oklahoma City, Okl., on the brief), for appellee Texas Co.

Before LEWIS and VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judges, and SYMES, District Judge.


LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

The main issue in each of these four cases, argued together, is whether an act of the Oklahoma Legislature (chapter 113, Session Laws 1927), requiring an annual license fee from corporations that do business in that state and fixing the basis on which the amount thereof is to be ascertained is enforceable against appellees, plaintiffs below, all Delaware corporations. The complaints challenge the act on the ground that it discriminates between...

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