Bracken's Shopping Center, Inc. v. Ruwe

OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT D. MORGAN, District Judge.

The question whether the plaintiffs have stated a claim for relief under the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts arises upon defendants’ several motions to dismiss. The gist of the plaintiffs’ complaint is that defendants, opposing the construction of a shopping center which might reduce the business of “downtown” Kewanee merchants, conspired to file in the state court a representative suit challenging the validity of the statute under which the city fathers had vacated certain streets needed for the proposed shopping center.

Since the…