LEH v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 20531-WM.

208 F.Supp. 289 (1962)

Marc D. LEH, individually and the Progress Company, a co-partnership comprised of Marc D. Leh and David Brown, co-partners, Plaintiffs, v. GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a corporation, Standard Oil Company of California, a corporation, Texaco, Inc., a corporation, Richfield Oil Corporation, a corporation, Union Oil Company of California, a corporation, Tidewater Oil Company, a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

August 30, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Harris, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

P. E. Bermingham, Sims Hamilton and Howard Painter, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant General Petroleum Corporation.

Marshall P. Madison, Francis R. Kirkham, William E. Mussman and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Standard Oil Company of California.

George W. Jansen, New York City, J. A. Tucker and Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Texaco, Inc.

Wm. J. DeMartini and William H. Powell, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Richfield Oil Corporation.

L. A. Gibbons, Douglas C. Gregg and A. Andrew Hauk, Los Angeles, Cal., Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Moses Lasky and Richard Haas, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Union Oil Company of California.

Edmund D. Buckley, Overton, Lyman & Prince and Wayne H. Knight, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Tidewater Oil Company.


MATHES, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action for treble damages under § 4 of the Clayton Act [15 U.S.C.A. § 15], alleging injury to their business proximately resulting from a combination or conspiracy among defendants to exclude and prevent plaintiffs from engaging in the wholesale distribution of gasoline in Southern California, in violation of §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act [15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 and 2]. Federal jurisdiction is...

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