STANDARD OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 171.

41 F.2d 836 (1930)

STANDARD OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES et al. (INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, Intervener).

District Court, N. D. Indiana, Hammond Division.

March 5, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Knapp & Campbell, Harry I. Allen, John R. Cochran, L. L. Stephens, and Harry A. Daugherty, all of Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Elmer B. Collins, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., John Lord O'Brian, Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Oliver M. Loomis, U. S. Atty., of South Bend, Ind.

J. Stanley Payne, Asst. Chief Counsel, of Washington, D. C. (Daniel W. Knowlton, Chief Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Interstate Commerce Commission.

J. L. Aber, of Pittsburgh, Pa., D. P. Connell and J. N. Davis, both of Chicago, Ill., E. J. Halberg, of Cleveland, Ohio, Herbert S. Harr, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Walter McFarland, of Chicago, Ill., G. D. Peters, of Hammond, Ind., M. B. Pierce, of New York City, K. L. Richmond and E. A. Smith, both of Chicago, Ill., L. H. Strasser, of St. Louis, Mo., and F. H. Towner, of Chicago, Ill., for defendant carriers.

Before SPARKS, Circuit Judge, and BALTZELL and SLICK, District Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This suit is brought by Standard Oil Company (Indiana), petitioner, against the respondents, United States of America and fifty railway companies, who will be hereinafter referred to as the respondent carriers.

Prior to filing this suit the petitioner had filed two complaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission, alleging that the respondent carriers had collected from petitioner, between...

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