Tenneco Chemicals, Inc. v. Gulf Naval Stores Company, Gulf Naval Stores Company v. Tenneco Chemicals, Inc.

MARIS, Circuit Judge:

The litigation now before us is of long standing. The complaint, filed by plaintiff’s predecessor, Heyden Newport Chemical Corporation, alleged that by a letter-agreement dated September 22, 1947, written by the plaintiff’s then predecessor, Newport Industries, Inc., to the Wood Naval Stores Export Association and accepted by the Association and its six individual members, including the defendant partnership, as then constituted, 1 the plaintiff was designated, until May 15, 1957, as the sole and exclusive agent of the Association and its members for the sale in the…