Texas Company Research Articles

In re The Texas Company of Mexico, S.A.

249Aliens — Respect for Property of — Corporation Controlled by Aliens — Nationalisation of Petroleum in Mexico.

Results of Further Field Tests on Suggested Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications: Progress Report No. 3 of the A.S.M.E. Special Research Committee on Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications

Results of Further Field Tests on Suggested Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications: Progress Report No. 3 of the A.S.M.E. Special Research Committee on Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications

Results of Some Tests by Industry of Sample Diesel Fuel Oil: Progress Report No. 2 of the A.S.M.E. Special Research Committee on Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications

Results of Some Tests by Industry of Sample Diesel Fuel Oil: Progress Report No. 2 of the A.S.M.E. Special Research Committee on Diesel Fuel-Oil Specifications

Clements (plaintiff) v. Texas Company (defendant).

State Succession — Effects of, in respect of Private Rights — Validity of Judgments — Whether Enforceable by new Sovereign — Separation of Texas from Mexico.

The Mexican Petroleum Company's Amparo Case

On November I7th last the Supreme Court of Mexico decided in favor of the company the amparo case of the Mexican Petroleum Company against acts of the Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Labor and of the Petroleum Agency in Tampico. Not since the now celebrated Texas Company amparo1 has a decision of the Supreme Court of Mexico attracted as much attention or been read with as great interest, both by lawyers and laymen on either side of the Rio Grande. In view of the importance of the present decision and of the widespread comment it has already aroused, it is our purpose to analyze the Court's decision and to endeavor to point out its meaning and possible effect. We do not deem it necessary to explain fully what the remedy of amparo is under Mexican Constitutional Law and Practice,2 nor do we consider it desirable or feasible to discuss the entire petroleum question, since the adoption of the famous Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution of I9I7.3 We shall, how-