UNION PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 8646.

376 F.2d 569 (1967)

UNION PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a Corporation, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Q. Buck, Houston, Tex. (Austin C. Wilson, Thomas J. Brorby, and Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Bruce Green, U. S. Atty., Muskogee, Okl. (Eugene J. Schubert, Atty., I.C.C., Washington, D. C., with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before PICKETT and HICKEY, Circuit Judges, and STANLEY, District Judge.


PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, finding appellant Union Petroleum Corporation guilty of violating Section 1 of the Elkins Act, 49 U.S.C. § 41(1), and imposing a $1,000 fine for each of 26 counts of knowingly soliciting and accepting concessions from a common carrier through the device of claiming a transit privilege to which it was not entitled. Each count represents...

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