United States v. Standard Oil Co. of California

YANKWICH, District Judge.

In this action brought by the United States to enjoin certain practices of the defendant corporations, which the complaint alleges to be in violation of the Sherman, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 to 4, and the Clayton 15 U.S.C.A. § 25, Anti-Trust Acts, several motions have been interposed by the defendants.

The complaint, generally, charges certain practices in controlling 8000 stations in eight Western States — California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah — and in controlling *339oil, gasoline, tires, and other products to be sold at these stations to the…