Shell Oil Co. v. District Court

WILBUR, Circuit Judges

The petitioner, first having obtained leave of court so to do, filed a petition for an alternative writ of mandate or prohibition. The order to show cause was issued, and the respondents filed a return objecting, among other things, to the jurisdiction of this court to issue a writ of mandamus or prohibition in the matter. The respondents, upon the application of the complainant in the case of West Coast Petroleum Corporation v. Shell Oil Company, and others, now pending in the District Court of the United States' for the Western District of Washington, issued a subpmna…