EASTERN STATES PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORP. v. WALKER

Civ. A. No. 12682.

177 F.Supp. 328 (1959)

EASTERN STATES PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Charles J. WALKER, Sr., and C. M. Maier, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

September 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meyers & Batzell, E. J. Dryer, Washington, D. C., James R. Connor, Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, W. N. Arnold, Jr., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald B. MacGuineas, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., William B. Butler, U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., for defendants.


INGRAHAM, District Judge.

Plaintiff operates a petroleum refinery at Houston with a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day. It seeks to enjoin the Collector and Deputy Collector of Customs at Galveston and Houston, Texas, from refusing to permit plaintiff to import amounts of oil in excess of its import allocation under the Mandatory Oil Import Program promulgated by the President in Proclamation 3279, issued March 10, 1959...

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