CITY OF SEDALIA v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF INDIANA

Nos. 9653, 9652, 9654-9658.

66 F.2d 757 (1933)

CITY OF SEDALIA, ex rel. and to Use of BAUMAN, City Treasurer, v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF INDIANA, and six other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 3, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Hayes, of Sedalia, Mo. (E. W. Jones, W. D. O'Bannon, Fred M. Ross, and Lawrence Barnett, all of Sedalia, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Lee Montgomery, of Sedalia, Mo. (Buell F. Jones, of Chicago, Ill., Eben H. Jones, of Cleveland, Ohio, Cliff V. Peery and Walter E. Brown, both of Kansas City, Mo., and John T. Martin and John Z. Montgomery, both of Sedalia, Mo., on the brief), for appellee Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

James T. Dolan, of St. Louis, Mo. (Guy A. Thompson, Samuel A. Mitchell, Frank A. Thompson, and Truman Post Young, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee Shell Petroleum Co.

James P. Kem, of Kansas City, Mo. (W. H. Bohling, of Sedalia, Mo., on the brief), for appellees White Eagle Oil & Refining Co. and White Eagle Oil Corporation.

J. C. Denton, R. H. Wills, J. H. Crocker, I. L. Lockewitz, and J. P. Grove, all of Tulsa, Okl., for Mid-Continent Petroleum Co.

Before STONE and WOODROUGH, Circuit Judges, and MUNGER, District Judge.


MUNGER, District Judge.

In this suit, the city of Sedalia, Mo., as plaintiff, now appellant, sought to collect from the defendant, now appellee, upon a claim for taxes due to the city. For that purpose it filed a bill in equity, containing two causes of action. The defendant's motion to dismiss the bill was sustained, and this appeal was taken. Similar proceedings were had in similar cases where the Shell Petroleum Company, the Skelly Oil Company, the Sinclair Refining...

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