Standard Oil of Ohio Standard Oil of Ohio Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio was an American oil company, and the earliest component of the original Standard Oil company founded by John D. Rockefeller. Sohio was acquired by British Petroleum, now called BP. Sohio continued as a separate entity after the antitrust breakup of Standard Oil in 1911. It operated service stations under the "Sohio" brand name in Ohio. In other states, it used the "Boron" brand name instead, but with an otherwise-similar logo. Wallace Trevor Holliday was President of the company from 1928 to 1949 and Chairman of the Board from 1949 until
Standard Oil Co. v. United States (Standard Stations) Standard Oil Co. v. United States (Standard Stations) Standard Oil Co. v. United States, 337 U.S. 293 (1949), more commonly referred to as the "Standard Stations" case (because that was the brand name of the company whose exclusive dealing contracts were held unlawful in the case. and also because there is a 1911 case with the same caption "Standard Oil Co. v. United States"), is a 1947 decision of the United States Supreme Court in which requirements contracts for gasoline stations (Standard Stations) were held to violate section 3 of the Clayton Act. That statute prohibits selling goods on the