WALDRON v. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO.


231 F.Supp. 72 (1964)

Gerald B. WALDRON, individually and doing business as Consolidated Brokerage, Plaintiff, v. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO., Ltd., Cities Service Co., Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Standard Oil Co. of California, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Texaco Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 23, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casey, Lane & Mittendorf, New York City, for plaintiff; Samuel M. Lane and Robert P. Beshar, New York City, of counsel.

Milton Pollack, New York City, for Defendant British Petroleum Co., Limited; Milton Pollack and Francis E. Koch, New York City, of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for Defendant Cities Service Co.; Simon H. Rifkind and Edward N. Costikyan, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine and Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, for defendant Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.; George Leisure, James M. MacNee, III, James R. Withrow, Jr., Goldthwaite H. Dorr and Robert R. Thornton, New York City, of counsel.

Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, for defendant Standard Oil Co. of California; John F. Sonnett and William M. Sayre, New York City, of counsel.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendant Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Arthur H. Dean, Roy H. Steyer and E. Roger Frisch, New York City, of counsel.

James O. Sullivan and Paul B. Wells, New York City, for defendant Texaco Inc.


HERLANDS, District Judge:

PART I.*

The issues raised by defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's antitrust action and for summary judgment1 have such far-ranging implications that an extensive recital of the facts is unavoidably necessary.

Factual Background.

The controversy at bar originates out of the dispute between Great Britain and Iran over the nationalization...

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