SHELL OIL CO. v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 7412.

70 F.2d 394 (1934)

SHELL OIL CO. v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SOUTHERN DIVISION, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 26, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. F. Thomas, Jr., Wm. E. Wright, and McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Ford Q. Elvidge and Hyland, Elvidge & Alvord, all of Seattle, Wash., for petitioner Shell Oil Co.

Judson F. Falknor and DeWolfe Emory, both of Seattle, Wash., for respondents.

Herbert W. Clark, of San Francisco, Cal., amicus curiæ.

Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and GARRECHT, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, first having obtained leave of court so to do, filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandate or prohibition. The order to show cause was issued, and the respondents filed a return objecting, among other things, to the jurisdiction of this court to issue a writ of mandamus or prohibition in the matter. The respondents, upon the application of the complainant in the case of West Coast Petroleum Corporation v. Shell Oil Company...

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