United States v. Pan-American Petroleum Co.

The matter at issue herein arises on a motion of plaintiff for entry of final decree in this suit upon the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States herein which has been received in this court and spread upon its minutes.

*207 It is unnecessary to here review the history of this action or to recount the proceedings therein since the entry of this court’s decree on July 11, 1925. It is sufficient to say that such decree was on the 4th day of January, 1926, partly affirmed and partly reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (9 F.[2d] 761) and the suit remanded here for further proceedings in accordance with the opinion of said Circuit Court of Appeals, and that thereafter, to wit, on February 28,1927, upon a writ, of certiorari, the Supreme Court of the United States ( 273 U. S. 456 , 47 S. Ct. 416 , 71 L. Ed. 734 ), affirmed said decree of said Circuit Court of Appeals and remanded this cause to this court, where it now is for the purpose of obeying said mandate and entering final decree pursuant to such mandate and the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States and of said Circuit Court of Appeals.

Plaintiff has presented under the rules a…