Lumbermen's Trust Co. v. Title Ins. & Inv. Co. of Tacoma
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Bill by the Lumbermen's Trust Company, as trustee, against the Title Insurance & Investment Company of Tacoma, a corporation, and others. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Bill by the Lumbermen's Trust Company, as trustee, against the Title Insurance & Investment Company of Tacoma, a corporation, and others. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. In the year 1909 there were three incorporated companies engaged in the business of furnishing abstracts of title at Tacoma, Wash.: The .Commonwealth Title Trust Company* hereinafter called the Commonwealth Company, owned and controlled By the Foggs and Gove; the Title Insurance &…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] We turn first to the question whether the original sale of the Washington Company to the Tacoma Company and the contemporaneous lease of the Wilson Company created a monopoly in the vendee and the lessee within the prohibition of the Constitution of Washington. The Commonwealth Company was the first corporation to engage in the abstract of title business in Pierce county-. Bor a time it had a monopoly of that business, so far as such a business could be monopolized; but, of course, the monopoly cannot be said to have been unlawful. On December 6, 1909,…
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