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GETTY OIL COMPANY v. MILLS

Civ. A. No. 17189.

204 F.Supp. 179 (1962)

GETTY OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. P. A. MILLS, t/a Moody Engineering Company, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 18, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David McNeal Olds, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., C. J. Head, Hecht, Hadfield, Farbach & McAlpin, New York City, for plaintiff.

Clyde A. Armstrong, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, J. Vincent Burke, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant.

DUMBAULD, District Judge.

It is perhaps as true of this case, as it was of litigation in the time of Lord Coke and of Justice Holmes, that protracted cases result by reason of the magnitude of the economic interests at stake, rather than the intricacy of the legal issues involved. In Coke's words, "to say the Truth, many questions are raised rather out of the weight of the Matter, than the Difficulty of the Case: For I never saw any Case of great Value proceed quietly...

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