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MELTON v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS

No. 509.

10 F.Supp. 984 (1935)

MELTON v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS et al.

District Court, W. D. Texas, Austin Division.

April 29, 1935.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Allen, and W. B. Harrell, both of Dallas, Tex., and J. M. Deavenport, of Kilgore, Tex., for complainant.

William McCraw, Atty. Gen., W. J. Holt and William C. Davis, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Claude Pollard, of Austin, Tex. (Maurice Cheek, of Fort Worth, Tex., of counsel), for defendant railroad companies.

G. B. Ross, of Galveston, Tex., for G. C. & S. F. Ry. Co.

R. H. Kelley, of Houston, Tex., for trustees, International-Great Northern R. Co.

Mastin G. White, of Washington, D. C., for Atty. Gen. of the United States.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge, and WEST and KENNERLY, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

By bill filed March 26th, plaintiff complains of the Commission's so-called tender or permit rules, requiring persons proposing to ship petroleum products to show that they were processed from legally produced oil. He sues the Railroad Commission and the Attorney General primarily, and incidentally joins in the suit railroad companies which he alleges have refused to ship his oil because of threats of prosecution...

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