Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. v. Cornish

VAUGHT, District Judge.

The plaintiff brings this action alleging that it is a nonresident corporation; that it has been and is now engaged in the business of purchasing on the open market in the state of Oklahoma, crude petroleum,- or oil produced from lands situate within said state, delivery of such oil being made by. the owners thereof in the tankage into which such oil is run from the wells producing the same; “that ever since the first production of oil in what is now the State of Oklahoma, there has existed a universal custom, usage, and method for measuring and determining the gross…