UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY

No. 11365.

23 F.Supp. 937 (1938)

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (INDIANA) et al.

District Court, W. D. Wisconsin.

July 19, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. P. Crawford, of Superior, Wis., John Henry Lewin, Hammond E. Chaffetz, W. B. Watson Snyder, and Grant W. Kelleher, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and John J. Boyle, U. S. Atty., of Madison, Wis., for the United States.

William J. Donovan, of New York City, Herbert H. Thomas, of Madison, Wis., J. Edward Lumbard, Jr., Ralstone R. Irvine, and Granville Whittlesey, Jr., all of New York City, and San W. Orr, of Madison, Wis., general counsel for defendants.

Louis L. Stephens, Buell F. Jones, Weymouth Kirkland, David Fisher, and John L. McInerney, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Standard Oil Co. (Ind.) and others.

W. P. Z. German and Alvin F. Molony, both of Tulsa, Okl., for Skelly Oil Co. and another.

Wm. Dewey Loucks and John F. O'Ryan, both of New York City, and E. C. Mead, of Tulsa, Okl., for Barnsdall Refining Corp. and another.

Ralph Horween, of Chicago, Ill., for Globe Oil & Refining Co. (Okl.) and others.

Rupert Thomas, Jr., and Bethuel M. Webster, Jr., both of New York City, for Edward L. Shea and others.

J. C. Denton and John P. Greve, both of Tulsa, Okl., and J. Craig McLanahan, of Baltimore, Md., for Mid-Continent Petroleem Corp. and others.

Don Emery, of Bartlesville, Okl., Amos L. Beaty, of Houston, Tex., Walter L. Barnes, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Rayburn L. Foster, of Bartlesville, Okla., for Phillips Petroleum Co. and others.

Louis Mead Treadwell, of New York City, for Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., and others.

Goldthwaite H. Dorr, of New York City, for Charles E. Arnott.

James J. Cosgrove and William H. Zwick, both of Ponca City, Okl., and Dan Moody, of Austin, Tex., for Continental Oil Co. and others.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Francis and Charles I. Francis, all of Houston, Tex., and Carl N. Hill, of Madison, Wis., for Pure Oil Co. and others.

Samuel A. Mitchell and Truman Post Young, both of St. Louis, Mo., for Shell Petroleum Co. and others.

G. T. Stanford, Roy T. Osborn, and Frederick Wood, all of New York City, for Sinclair Refining Co. and another.

J. H. Marshutz, of Milwaukee, Wis., for Wadhams Oil Co. and another.

Charles E. Gately, of New York City, E. L. Wingert, of Madison, Wis., Chas A. Frueauff, of New York City, and Theo. Brazeau, of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., for Cities Service Co. and others.


STONE, District Judge.

Realizing the importance to the Government and the defendants of a correct decision of the questions raised on the motions after verdict, and being conscious of the responsibility necessarily cast upon the Court, I have made a careful and thoughtful restudy of the evidence as it applies to each defendant, separately and jointly. I have considered in detail the contentions of all the defendants as advanced in the motions after verdict, and have...

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