City of Sedalia Ex Rel. Bauman v. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana

MUNGER, District Judge.

In this suit, the city of Sedalia, Mo., as plaintiff, now appellant, sought to collect from the defendant, now appellee, upon a claim for taxes due to the city. For that purpose it filed a bill in equity, containing two causes of action. The defendant’s motion to dismiss the bill was sustained, and this appeal was taken. Similar proceedings were had in similar cases where the Shell Petroleum Company, the Skelly Oil Company, the Sinclair Refining. Company, the White Eagle Oil & Refining Company et al., the Mid-Continent Petroleum Company, and the National Refining…