OIL: Appeals

In St. Louis U. Su attorneys filed an appeal in the case of the U. S. v. The Mammoth Oil Co., et al.—the famous suit for the annulment of the Teapot Dome oil lease to Harry F. Sinclair. The suit tried in Cheyenne, Wyo., was decided against the Government by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy (TIME, June 29).

Messrs. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel for the Government, thought they found 64 errors in Judge Kennedy's conduct of the trial. So they are asking the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse his decision. The appeal may be...

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