United States v. Middle States Oil Corporation

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

The appellee in interest is the Cotton Belt Petroleum Company, a corporation (hereinafter referred to as the petroleum company), which has been in the hands of receivers since September 9, 1924. The, original case, involving a large number of oil companies, of which the Middle States Oil Corporation was the parent one, was brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The proceedings out of which this appeal arose took place in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of OHahoma, and were ancillary to the New York…