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APPLICATION OF TEXAS CO.

Nos. 55D, 56D, 57D.

27 F.Supp. 847 (1939)

Application of TEXAS CO. et al.

District Court, E. D. Illinois.

June 5, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry T. Klein and George W. Ray, Jr., both of New York City, M. A. Jacobson, of Waukesha, Wis., and S. A. L. Morgan, of Houston, Tex., for applicants The Texas Co., W. S. S. Rodgers, H. W. Dodge, S. B. Wright, Walter Hochuli, and W. F. Murdy.

Webster & Garside and Bethuel M. Webster, all of New York City, for applicants Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Edward L. Shea, Noel Robinson, John W. Warner, John D. Collins, and Harold F. Parsons.

Topliff & Horween, Samuel Topliff and Ralph Horween, all of Chicago, Ill., for applicants Globe Oil & Refining Co., I. A. O'Shaughnessy, and G. O. Woodruff.

John Henry Lewin, Grant W. Kelleher, Nelson A. Sharfman, and George W. Wise, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Ray M. Foreman, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Danville, Ill., for respondents.

LINDLEY, District Judge.

The present applications seek to quash the grand jury subpoenas heretofore issued and to restrain the Government and its prosecuting officials from presenting certain witnesses and documents included in the subpoenas.

To appreciate fully the legal effect of the applications I think it well to revert briefly to some of the elementary principles of our form of government.

There are three departments. Upon the Congress and upon...

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