Standard Oil Co. v. Doyle
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 35 — Action by James E. Doyle against the Standard Oil Co, AND OTHERS FOR A CONSPIRACY TO INJURE PLAINTIFF’S BUSINESS. — » APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT — 'WATTS PARKER, .CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. POINTS' AND AUTHORITIES. STATEMENT.
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Case 35 — Action by James E. Doyle against the Standard Oil Co, AND OTHERS FOR A CONSPIRACY TO INJURE PLAINTIFF’S BUSINESS. — » APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT — 'WATTS PARKER, .CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. POINTS' AND AUTHORITIES. STATEMENT. This is an action by the appellee against the appellants for conspiracy to make the Wilburine Oil Co. cancel its contract, and driVe him out of the oil business by various acts set out in the petition for the purpose of preventing competition. ARGUMENT. 1. A peremptory instruction ought to have been granted. (1.) There…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COVET BY
JUDGE NUNN
AFFIRMING.
This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of the Fayette circuit court awarding appellee $2,300 in damages against the Standard Oil Company and $300 against C. B. Gilman, and involves some interesting questions. The appellants, claim that a cause of action was not stated in the petition, and the court erred in overruling their demurrer thereto. It was, in subsiance, alleged in the petition that in the spring of the year 1901, in the city of Lexington, Ky., the appellants C. P>. Gilman and M. F. Griffith, composing the firm known as the Brilliant…
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