Coast v. Hunt Oil Co.

DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, a citizen of Louisiana, alleges that “this action arises under the anti-trust laws of the United States * * * and jurisdiction exists by virtue of an Act of Congress of October 15, 1914, c. 323, Section 4, 38 Statutes 731 (15 U.S.C., Section 15 [15 U.S.C.A. § 15])”; that defendants are corporations under the laws of Delaware and Ohio; that plaintiff, since 1943, “has been engaged in the business of operating” an oil refinery in the Cotton Valley Field of Webster Parish, Louisiana; that he “in his own right owns an undivided forty-nine (49%) per cent interest in…