Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-17 | Page 2 | Old Firms Press Fight in Mexico

OIL FIRMS PRESS FIGHTINMEXICO MEXICO CITY. Feb. IT (UP) Foreign oil companlss whoss property prop-erty was expropriated by the government gov-ernment made new appeal to the courts today In thslr 11-month fight to rsgaln thslr Interests. They filed Injunction proceedings la the district court against an inventory in-ventory of their properties mad by ths department of national economy two weeks ago. In thslr pstltioa ths companies asssrtsd that ths Inventory waa incomplete, in-complete, that It waa prejudicial to their Interest, and that th department depart-ment had no authority to make such aa Inventory because such activities were within the province of the presldsncy. They asserted that the inventory was "a partial enumeration enumera-tion of properties which It waa said war expropriated but of which the companies were deepoiled." Repeal Aaeertiona Ths companies repeated thslr pre- j vious assertions that both the expropriation ex-propriation law and the decree of March IS. 13S, ordering seisure of their interests were unconstitutional unconstitu-tional They asked an Injunction against anything which might be done in connection with the Inventory until after the supreme court had ruled on the presidential appropriation decree. A petition for an injunction against this decree Is before the district court and is to be heard March 17. In thslr new action, ths companies compa-nies msds a sort of flank attack. Thslr efforts to prove the seiaurs decree Illegal went through the lower low-er courts last summsr.