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UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA

No. 57, Docket 25078.

270 F.2d 50 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, The Texas Company, Bahrein Petroleum Company, Ltd., California-Texas Oil Company, Ltd., Caltex Oceanic, Ltd., and Mid-East Crude Sales Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Milo V. Olson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., John G. Laughlin, Atty. (Morton Hollander, Atty., on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John T. Cahill (Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, Turner H. McBaine, San Francisco, Cal., William M. Sayre, James B. Henry, Jr., David R. Hyde, New York City, on the brief), for appellee, Standard Oil Co. of California.

Bethuel M. Webster, New York City (Webster, Sheffield & Chrystie, Oscar John Dorwin, Frederick P. Haas, Donald J. Cohn, New York City, on the brief), for appellee, The Texas Co.

Joseph M. Proskauer, New York City (Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Albert E. Van Dusen, Marvin E. Frankel, Julius J. Teller, New York City, on the brief), for appellees, Bahrein Petroleum Co., Ltd., California-Texas Oil Co., Ltd., Caltex Oceanic, Ltd., and Mid-East Crude Sales Co.

Before MADDEN, Judge, United States Court of Claims, MOORE, Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, District Judge.

LEONARD P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought by the United States of America (referred to as the "government") against a group of oil companies to recoup from them the sum of $66,021,257.77 expended by the government pursuant to the provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, 22 U.S.C.A. § 1501 et seq., through the Economic Cooperation Administration and the Mutual Security Agency (referred to as "ECA"), to finance the purchase of crude oil...

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