Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.

PETERS, District Judge.

The above two suits were heard together hy me without a jury by virtue of a stipulation to that effect. The suits are to recover for royalties due under a license agreement whereby the plaintiff granted to the defendant a nonexclusive license under letters patent owned hy the plaintiff and others to construct and operate at its plant in Oklahoma two Cross cracking units for cracking petroleum oils. The amount of royalties covered by the two suits, as stipulated by the parties, aggregates upwards of $200,000. The two suits will he treated as one for the purposes of this…