Gold Fuel Service, Inc., a Corporation of New Jersey v. Esso Standard Oil Company, a Corporation, of Delaware

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal has been taken from an order granting summary judgment for the defendant in a civil antitrust suit. The appellant, Gold Fuel Service, Inc., had sued Esso Standard Oil Co. for damages said to have been caused by illegal action of Esso in the course of the competition of the parties to sell fuel oil to two associated enterprises, Cooper Alloy Corp. and Stainless Engineering and Machine Works, which we shall designate together as Cooper-Stainless.

Appellant predicates its claim upon three separate provisions of the federal statutes. Its first contention is that a…