UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA

No. E-5.

20 F.Supp. 427 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA et al.

District Court, S. D. California, N. D., Ninth Circuit.

August 25, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Preston, Sp. Counsel, and Annette Abbott Adams, Asst. Sp. Counsel, both of San Francisco, Cal., for the United States.

Oscar Lawler, of Los Angeles, Cal., Eugene M. Prince, of San Francisco, Cal., and Wm. H. Burges, of El Paso, Tex., for defendant Standard Oil Co. of California.

Ray W. Hays, of Fresno, Cal., for defendants Frank J. Carman, Elna Carman, Henry Fairbank, Charles Fairbank, and Clara Fairbank Ranney.

W. G. Griffith, of Santa Barbara, Cal., for defendant Mary Rock.


YANKWICH, District Judge.

The United States of America, as plaintiff, has instituted this suit in equity seeking to be decreed the absolute owner of certain public lands in the State of California known as section 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, M.D.B. & M. Pending for determination are the motion of some of the defendants to transfer the cause to the law side of the docket and motions of the plaintiff to strike and dismiss certain of the defenses set forth...

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