Transcontinental Petroleum Co. v. Interocean Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota; James D. Elliott, Judge. Action at law by the Transcontinental Petroleum Company against the Interocean Oil Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by tiñe Transcontinental Petroleum Company of the Republic of Mexico against the Inter ocean Oil Company of South Dakota for breach of a written contract of sale and purchase of crude oil produced in the Panuco oil fields, near Tam-pico, Mexico. The plaintiff was the seller, and defendant the purchaser. The breach claimed was in the failure of the latter and its assignee to take a large part of the quantity of oil contracted for. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence the trial court directed a verdict for the defendant and judgment followed…
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