In re R. Hal Compton Crude Oil Purchasing Co.

LINDLEY, District Judge.

The facts are stipulated. However, it does not appear from the stipulation that there was any contract between the parties other than a general understanding that debtor would deliver oil to claimant and that the latter would transport the same in its pipe line to the refinery and there deliver it to debtor. Indeed, the stipulation is that “pursuant” to Interstate Commerce Commission Tariff No. 161, debtor delivered to claimant at various dates in November and December of 1940 and January, 1941, separate quantities of oil, some thirty-three in number, varying from 821…