United States v. Wilshire Oil Co.

This suit in equity was commenced by the United States attorney for this judicial district on December 14, 1933. The action is authorized under section 3 (c) of the National Industrial Recovery Aet ( 48 Stat. 195 , 15 USCA § 703 (e), and is on behalf of the government and its Administrator of the Code of Pair Competition for the Petroleum Industry, as complainants, against the Wilshire Oil Company, Inc., a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, its officers and directors, and certain other corporate bodies engaged in the oil industry which are affiliates of the Wilshire Oil Company, as defendants.

The objective of complainants is to obtain a mandatory injunction restraining the defendants from producing crude oil or any product thereof from their respective wells in Santa Pé Springs and in the Huntington Beach oil fields of California in excess of the amounts allocated in and by the quotas and operating schedules as now compiled, and as they may be hereafter compiled and approved, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Code of Pair Competition for the Petroleum Industry which has been established and promulgated under the…