| Show S TANDI iHO OIL CO WINS ON APPEAL famous case in which company was fined by judge landis sent back for trial the court of appeals appeal differs with the trial court on three points point s government has thirty days daya to file petition for rehearing chicago 13 unanimous opinion ot of the united states court of appeals for the benenti district yie he famous caw cage ot of the government against the standard oil company of oc indiana Ind lann in which the latter was m as fined 29 by judge landis la in the di court must be retried the cobit 0 of appeals differs with the bilal cobit on three points hold ing that judge landis evi dence for the standard oil of indiana which should have haie mm ban admitted to show proper lutent intent in the tha rate the company paid on oil that he ha erred in considering each car let lat FA a separate offense and that in imposing the maximum fine for a alist offense off ensa he abused the discretion discie et ion tion vested ested in ilia his cobit it Is strange doctrine sas the opinion I 1 ni hereunder a million dollars corporation such as aa the defendant the standard oil company of in dlana diana may be fined twenty nine times timea the amount of its capital stock in or OP der to punish a defendant not even un der indictment hy by this latter la Is meant the parent company the Stam standard dard oil company of new jersey this decision concurred in by judges baker and seaman was delivered here wednesday by judge grosscup who wrote the opinion the government ai lias thirty days blitch to file a petition for a rehearing and it was as announced wednesday afternoon that it will wh be filed buthla the allotted period |
