UNITED STATES v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION

No. 14149-M Cr.

33 F.Supp. 95 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA et al.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

May 20, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. S. Huberman, Henry McClernan, Laurence P. Sherfy, A. Andrew Hauk, and Charles S. Burdell, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Roland G. Swaffield, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Aromalene, Inc., and others.

Roland G. Swaffield and J. Howard Edgerton, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants California Oil & Refining Co. and White Star Oil & Refining Co.

Roland G. Swaffield and Hibbard & Kleindienst, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Century Oil Co.

Francis B. Cobb, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Eagle Oil & Refining Co., Inc.

Roland G. Swaffield and Earl Glen Whitehead, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant El Camino Refining Co.

Roland G. Swaffield and Kenyon F. Lee, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Estado Petroleum Corporation.

Don S. Irwin, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Exeter Refining Co.

E. S. Williams, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Fair Practices Ass'n.

Proctor K. Perkins, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Fletcher Oil Co., Inc.

Theodore J. Roche, of San Francisco, Cal., and Martin J. Weil, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant General Petroleum Corporation of California.

Salisbury, Robinson & Himrod, and Verne E. Robinson, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Gilmore Oil Co.

F. A. Knight, of Long Beach, Cal., for defendant Hancock Oil Co. of California.

Roland G. Swaffield and Andrews & Kline, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Kern Oil Co., Limited.

Herbert R. Macmillan, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant MacMillan Petroleum Corporation.

Edwin V. McKenzie, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Mohawk Petroleum Corporation.

Kirk E. Boone, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Norwalk Co.

Roland G. Swaffield and Edmund Nichols, Jr., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Olympic Refining Co.

Gordon Lawson and Belmore Goulden, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Petrol Corporation.

L. R. Martineau, Jr., and Warren Stratton, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Richfield Oil Corporation and Rio Grande Oil Co., Inc.

Schauer, Ryon & McMahon, Harrison Ryon, and Robert W. McIntyre, all of Santa Barbara, Cal., for defendant Seaside Oil Co.

McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, and William E. Wright, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Shell Oil Co.

Harold Judson, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Signal Oil Co.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, of San Francisco, Cal., Lawler, Felix & Hall, of Los Angeles, Cal., Oscar Lawler, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Felix T. Smith, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Standard Oil Co. of California.

Roland G. Swaffield and Mitchell, Silberberg, Roth & Knupp, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Sunset Oil Co.

Charles C. Stanley, Gen. Counsel, J. A. McNair, and H. T. Morrow, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Texas Co.

Robert M. Searls, W. F. Kiessig, and Edmund D. Buckley, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Tide Water Associated Oil Co.

Roland G. Swaffield and L. W. Frankley, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Triangle Oil & Refining Co.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, and Maurice E. Harrison, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Paul M. Gregg and L. A. Gibbons, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Union Oil Co. of California.


McCORMICK, District Judge.

On November 14, 1939, an indictment was filed in this court by the grand jury, charging forty-one corporations operating in various units of the petroleum industry functioning among five western states with conspiracy to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Title 15 U.S.C.A. § 1.

Demurrers have been interposed by twenty-three of the defendant companies. These were extensively argued...

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