RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 15296.

248 F.2d 217 (1957)

RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION, a corporation, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

August 21, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Guntert, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leavenworth Colby, Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Assts. Atty. Gen., Graydon S. Staring and George Jaffin, San Francisco, Cal., Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and HEALY and POPE, Circuit Judges.


POPE, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed its amended libel in the court below seeking recovery from the United States under the provisions of the Suits in Admiralty Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq.), of a sum alleged to have been improperly exacted from the appellant and unjustly received by the United States.

The early history of the controversy between Richfield and the United States, and the circumstances out of which this suit arose, is related at some...

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