Legal Opinion
Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1931No. 362PublishedCited by 648 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
Petitioner brought suit in the District Court for Maine, to recover royalties alleged to be due under a contract by which it licensed respondent to use two “ Cross cracking units,” structures adapted to the use of the “ Cross cracking process ” for increasing the production of gasoline from crude oil. Respondent pleaded, by way of counterclaim, in two separate counts, a contract by petitioner to construct a “ Cross vapor treating tower ” for treatment of gasoline, produced by the cracking units, necessary to make it marketable. The consideration for this contract was alleged to be the…
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