UNIVERSAL OIL PROD. CO. v. SHELL DEV. CO.


196 Misc. 497 (1949)

Universal Oil Products Company, Plaintiff, v. Shell Development Company et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

October 6, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy N. Pfeiffer and Rebecca M. Cutler for plaintiff.

William Dwight Whitney and William F. Collins for Shell Development Company, defendant.

Ralph M. Carson and William R. Meagher for Standard Oil Development Company, defendant.

E. F. Liebrecht for The M. W. Kellogg Company, defendant.


ISIDOR WASSERVOGEL, Official Referee.

The issue to be determined in this action is whether World War II has ended insofar as the agreement between the parties here involved is concerned.

Plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, seeks a declaratory judgment as to the meaning of the phrase "six months after the termination of the present war" contained in an agreement to which it and all of the defendants in...

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