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WILLIAM WHITMAN CO. v. UNIVERSAL OIL PRODUCTS CO.

Civ. A. No. 987.

125 F.Supp. 137 (1954)

WILLIAM WHITMAN COMPANY, Inc. (formerly The National Refining Company), Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSAL OIL PRODUCTS COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

July 16, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caleb S. Layton, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Walter J. Milde, Robert W. Poore, Allen C. Holmes, James T. Lynn, Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, Cleveland, Ohio, Thorley von Holst, Thiess, Olson & Mecklenburger, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

E. Ennalls Berl and William S. Potter, Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, Del., Ralph S. Harris, Frederick W. P. Lorenzen, Joanna H. Maxwell, Adrien L. Ringuette, Dwight, Royall, Harris, Keogel & Caskey, New York City, Charles M. Thomas, Washington, D. C., John G. Woods, Des Plaines, Ill., for defendant.

RODNEY, District Judge.

This action, based on fraud, traces its devious course back to 1929 and 1931. This preliminary and abbreviated statement of facts is largely taken from a former opinion of this Court of July 12, 1950, 92 F.Supp. 885.

In 1929 and 1931 defendant's predecessor, a South Dakota corporation of the same name as defendant, commenced two suits in this court against the Winkler-Koch Engineering Co. and the...

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