UNIVERSAL OIL PRODUCTS CO. v. DERBY OIL & REFINING CORP.

Nos. 4969, 4975.

19 F.Supp. 821 (1937)

UNIVERSAL OIL PRODUCTS CO. v. DERBY OIL & REFINING CORPORATION.

District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 9, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wall, Haight, Carey & Hartpence, Thomas G. Haight, Edward J. O'Mara, and George G. Tennant, Jr., all of Jersey City, N. J., and Morgan S. Kaufman, of Scranton, Pa., for plaintiff.

McCarter & English and Arthur F. Egner, all of Newark, N. J., and Charles G. Yankey, and Verne M. Laing, both of Wichita, Kan., for defendant.


FAKE, District Judge.

This suit is based upon the theory that the defendant, a New Jersey corporation, is liable in certain damages claimed by the plaintiff because the defendant is an agent or alter ego of a Kansas corporation (the Derby Oil Company), and, as such, chargeable with the acts complained of.

It appears from the pleadings and the evidence before me that the Kansas corporation has been engaged for some years in the development of oil fields largely...

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