UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY

Cr. No. 2168.

165 F.Supp. 359 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

July 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl A. Jinkinson, Chief, Midwest Office, Antitrust Division, Chicago, Ill., Phil M. McNagny, U. S. Atty., Northern District of Indiana, Fort Wayne, Ind., for the Government.

Walter T. Kuhlmey (of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis), Chicago, Ill., and George N. Beamer (of Crumpacker, May, Beamer, Levy & Searer), South Bend, Ind., for defendant Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

Herman J. Schmidt, General Counsel, Mobil Oil Co., New York City, and John J. Scott, Associate General Counsel, Mobil Oil Co., New York City, and Edward F. Howrey (of Howrey & Simon), Washington, D. C., and Joseph B. Kennedy, Jr. (of Howrey & Simon), Washington, D. C., and J. Arthur Kelly, Chicago, Ill., and James E. Keating, South Bend, Ind., for Socony Mobil Oil Co.

W. B. Edwards, and C. B. Jarrett, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., David T. Searls, Houston, Tex., and Joseph A. Roper, South Bend, Ind., for Gulf Oil Corp.

John Blair Moffett, Chief Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., Henry A. Frye, Philadelphia, Pa., Louis L. Anderson, South Bend, Ind., for Sun Oil Co.

William K. Tell, Findley, Ohio, Thomas M. Scanlon, Louis A. Highmark (of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd), Indianapolis, Ind., Thomas L. Murray (of Seebirt, Oare, Deahl & Thornburg), South Bend, Ind., for Ohio Oil Co.

Walter L. Barnes, Bartlesville, Okl., Howard P. Robinson, Howard Neitzert, Chicago, Ill., and Bruce Hammerschmidt, South Bend, Ind., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Gentry Lee, Bartlesville, Okl., General Counsel, E. Gray Hayden, Chicago, Ill., Norman Kopec, South Bend, Ind., for Cities Service Oil Co.

F. D. Gorman, Amzy B. Steed, Oscar John Dorwin, New York City, James W. Campbell, Chicago, Ill., for Texas Co.

Irving Slifkin, New York City, Timothy I. McKnight, Chicago, Ill., Elbert A. Hugill, Jr., New York City, Timothy P. Galvin, Hammond, Ind., for Shell Oil Co.

John E. Doran, South Bend, Ind., for Central West Oil Corp.

Louis Shifrin, St. Louis, Mo., for Tornado Oil Co.

Roland Obenchain, Jr., and Milton A. Johnson, South Bend, Ind., Irvin C. Klinock, Kansas City, Mo., for Hudson Oil Co.

Paul R. Summers, Indianapolis, Ind., Lloyd M. Allen, South Bend, Ind., for Gaseteria.

William F. McInerny, South Bend, Ind., for Pacer Oil Co., Inc.


GRANT, District Judge.

The Grand Jury indictment in this criminal action charges the defendants with engaging in an "unlawful combination and conspiracy in unreasonable restraint" of gasoline traffic in interstate commerce. 15 U.S.C.A. Section 1.

The indictment charges that beginning on April 25, 1957, the defendants and certain co-conspirators engaged in an unlawful combination and conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Act, that the unlawful combination...

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