Mexican Gulf Oil Co. v. Compania Transcontinental De Petroleo, S.A.
District Court, S.D. New York
At Law. Action hy the Mexican Gulf Oil Company and the International Petroleum Company against the Compañía Transcontinental De Petróleo, S. A.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This case was tried before me, a jury being waived.
The plaintiffs seek to -recover of the defendant damages for taking some 6,000,000 barrels of oil out of a part of lot 163 in the canton of Tuxpam, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, upon which they claim the exclusive right to explore for oil. The complaint contains two counts, the first, like an action of trover at common law, for the conversion of the oil as their property, and the second, like an action of trespass on the case, for injury to their exclusive right to explore for oil.
The answer of the defendant, after a general…
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