Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.

A bill of discovery in aid of an action at law was dis^ missed by the ^District Court, 56 F., (2d) 272, but upheld upon appeal by the Circuit Court of Appeals. 62 F. (2d) 663. The question is whether the bill is good upon its face.

The respondent, Jenkins Petroléum Process Company, loaned to the petitioner, Sinclair Refining Company, then known as the Cudahy Refining Company, an experimental still for cracking petroleum oils to produce gasoline. By written agreement, any improvements developed as the result of the work of the petitioner’s engineers and experts in making themselves familiar…