Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co.

Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 12, 1936 Decided November 9, 1936
Full case name	Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co.
Citations	299 U.S. 65 (more) 57 S. Ct. 51; 81 L. Ed. 42
Holding
An inquiry into indispensability would be unnecessary where the complaint did not state a cause of action.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Benjamin N. Cardozo
Case opinion
Majority	Sutherland
Stone took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co., 299 U.S. 65 (1936), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that an inquiry into indispensability would be unnecessary where the complaint did not state a cause of action.