UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 4131.

33 F.2d 617 (1929)

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA) et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

June 11, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Sargent, Atty. Gen., William J. Donovan, Assistant to the Atty. Gen., George E. Q. Johnson, U. S. Atty., of Chicago, Ill., Rush H. Williamson and Horace R. Lamb, both of Washington, D. C., and Benjamin T. Rauber and Ralstone R. Irvine, Sp. Assts. Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Chauncey W. Martyn, Harry A. Daugherty, Louis L. Stephens, and Russell Wiles, all of Chicago, Ill., for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana).

Chester O. Swain, of New York City, and Stuart Templeton, of Chicago, Ill., for Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and another.

C. B. Ames, of Oklahoma City, Okl., and Drury W. Cooper and Harry T. Klein, both of New York City, and Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, Ill., for Texas Co. and another.

Cutting, Moore & Sidley, of Chicago, Ill., Cutcheon, Taylor, Bowie & Marsh, and Ram say Hoguet, all of New York City, and Thomas E. Scofield, of Kansas City, for Gasoline Products Co., and others.

Frank L. Crawford, of New York City, and John A. Massen, of Chicago, Ill., for Galena Signal Oil Co. (Texas).

Humphrey, Crawford & Middleton, and Marvin H. Taylor, all of Louisville, Ky., for Standard Oil Co. (Kentucky).

Vermilion, Evans, Carey & Lilleston, of Wichita, Kan., and Harry A. Daugherty, of Chicago, Ill., for Standard Oil Co. (Kansas).

G. H. Dorr, of New York City, for Standard Oil Co. (New York).

W. T. Holliday, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Donald Defrees and Stephen E. Hurley, both of Chicago, Ill., for Standard Oil Co. (Ohio).

James H. Ball and Burton W. Musser, both of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Albert L. Green, of Chicago, Ill., for Utah Refining Co.

Hopkins, Starr & Hopkins, of Chicago, Ill., and H. O. Bentley, of Lima, Ohio, for Solar Refining Co.

Weeks, Morrow & Francis, of Wichita Falls, Kan., and Jeffery, Townley, Wild, Campbell & Clark, of Chicago, Ill., for American Refining Co.

Bates, Hicks & Folonie, of Chicago, Ill., for Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Koerner, Fahey & Young, of St. Louis, Mo., and Adams & Hawley, of Chicago, Ill., for Roxana Petroleum Co.

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, of Chicago, Ill., and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, of San Francisco, Cal., for Standard Oil Co. (California).

James M. Johnson, Donald W. Johnson, and Charles French, all of Kansas City, Mo., for Interstate Refineries, Inc.

Edward D. Ellison, and Patrick Carr, both of Kansas City, Mo., for Lion Oil Refining Co.

Ashcraft & Ashcraft, of Chicago, Ill., for Owl Oil Co.

Francis I. Fallon, Rupert B. Thomas, T. Houston Solley, and Frank M. Swacker, all of New York City, and W. C. Franklin, of Tulsa, Okl., for Tide Water Oil Co. and another.

Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall & Hunt, of Boston, Mass., for Beacon Oil Co.

W. H. Francis and A. S. Hardwicke, both of Dallas, Tex., for Magnolia Petroleum Co.

John J. Jones, of Kansas City, Mo., for White Eagle Oil & Refining Co.

Fisher, Boyden, Kales & Bell, of Chicago, Ill., and Joseph H. Adams, of New York City, for Pure Oil Co.

S. S. Searcy, of San Antonio, Tex., for Jones & Co., Inc.

Victor Keller, of Chicago, Ill., for Grayburg Oil Co.

Wilkinson, Huxley, Byron & Knight, of Chicago, Ill., for Vacuum Oil Co.

Before EVANS, PAGE, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner brought this suit to enjoin alleged violations of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act (15 USCA §§ 1, 2). Defendants are grouped into two classes, one called primary defendants (the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Texas Company, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Gasoline Products Company) and the other, described as secondary defendants, included forty-six corporations and one individual.

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