STATE v. STANDARD OIL CO.


5 N.J. Super. 460 (1949)

68 A.2d 499

THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, BY THEODORE D. PARSONS, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY, DEFENDANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided September 20, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Emerson L. Richards, Special Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

Messrs. Stryker, Tams & Horner (Mr. Josiah Stryker and Mr. Valdemar Beeken, of counsel), attorneys for the defendant.


JAYNE, J.S.C.

This action will be recalled as a proceeding instituted in pursuance of the terms of a legislative enactment entitled "An Act providing for the escheat of certain unclaimed personal property," and its amendments, R.S. 2:53-15 to 2:53-32, N.J.S.A., in which on March 3, 1949, I filed a preliminary memorandum concerning certain controversial points, the legal character of which I was requested to consider in abstract form.

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