Woods Exploration & Producing Company, Inc. v. Aluminum Company of America

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This battle-scarred antitrust case and its antecedents, both lineal and collateral, have been in litigation without surcease, armistice, or truce since the early 1960’s. The war today continues on two fronts —federal and state. Preserving for later the intimate factual details revealed in the myriad documents and testimony adduced below, we now sketch in the *1289main historical contours of the present dispute.

The trouble among the parties centers around their activities in the Appling Natural Gas Field in Jackson and Calhoun Counties, Texas. Defendants, Aluminum Company of…