FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ARIZONA v. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO.

Civ. No. 110-223.

324 F.Supp. 1348 (1971)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ARIZONA, as successor executor of the last will and testament of Gerald B. Waldron, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. BRITISH PETROLEUM CO., Ltd., 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.

March 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casey, Lane & Mittendorf, New York City, for plaintiff; by William E. Kelly, and Alan R. Wentzel, New York City, of counsel.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendant Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); by Arthur H. Dean, Roy H. Steyer, and Robert G. Sugarman, New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, by James Withrow, Jr., and John Wilkinson, New York City, of counsel; Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander, New York City, by Goldthwaite Dorr and Gerald Feffer, New York City, of counsel, for defendant Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, for defendant Standard Oil Co. of California; by William Sayre, Michael Armstrong and Rodney Dowling, New York City, of counsel.

John Van Voorhis, New York City, Pollack, Singer, New York City, for defendant British Petroleum Co., Ltd.; by Richard M. Asche, New York City, of counsel.

William C. Weitzel, Jr., New York City, for defendant Texaco, Inc.; and Edmund Burke, Jr., New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

CROAKE, District Judge.

The motions in this case now before the court provide a study in the complications often attendant upon private antitrust litigation. Indeed, it is not an easy matter to determine exactly what the present posture of this case is.

The following is a recitation of the relevant facts, as compiled by this court from examination of the depositions and affidavits, and as abstracted from the decisions of other judges previously...

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