E. L. Husting Co. v. Coca Cola Co.

The following opinion was filed June 12, 1931:

Wickhem, J.

The first contention of the appellant is that the evidence showed a conspiracy between the defendants to defeat plaintiff’s rights under his exclusive sales contract. In its findings of fact the trial court found that the Coca Cola Company consented to the exclusive contract entered into January 10, 1917, by the Western Bottling Company and the plaintiff, and that otherwise it had no participation in that transaction. The court further found that the action of the Western Bottling Company in assuriiing to cancel the agreement of January…