Taxin v. Food Fair Stores, Inc.

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

In this civil antitrust suit the appellants, John and Bernard Taxin, who are wholesale distributors of fruit and produce in the Philadelphia area, have charged numerous defendants with conspiracy to restrain and monopolize interstate commerce in fruit and produce. One group of defendants, associated with defendant Food Fair Stores, Inc., will be called Food Fair or the Food Fair defendants. The second group, the appel-lees here, associated with defendant Samuel P. Mandell Co., Inc., will be called Mandell or the Mandell defendants.

Answering the complaint, all of the…