HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO. v. STANDARD OIL CO. (KENTUCKY)

Civ. A. No. 3137.

229 F.Supp. 586 (1964)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (KENTUCKY), Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

March 13, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie D. Taggart, Nicholas John Stathis, Ronald O. Thomas and Christopher J. Aeschlimann of Watson, Leavenworth, Kelton & Taggart, New York City, Forrest M. Darrough and Dillard W. Baker, Houston, Tex., F. X. Clair, New York City, Joe A. Thompson, Jackson, Miss., George F. Woodliff, of Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, Jackson, Miss., M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, Miss., for plaintiff.

Beverly W. Pattishall and W. Thomas Hofstetter, of Woodson, Pattishall & Garner, Chicago, Ill., F. R. Kirkham, James B. Atkin and Harlan M. Richter, of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., Dana Brown, Louisville, Ky., William E. Suddath, Jr., of Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., Robert W. Thompson, Jr., of Mize, Thompson & Mize, Gulfport, Miss., for defendant.


MIZE, District Judge.

This lawsuit involves a controversy between the plaintiff, Humble Oil & Refining Company, hereinafter referred to as Humble, and Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, hereinafter referred to as Kentucky and grows out of a contract between the two, entered into on the 27th day of January, 1955, involving the right to use the trade name ESSO. Involved also are two other contracts.

The first contract was executed on March 24, 1934 between...

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