Standard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

In this case the Federal Trade Commission challenged the right of the Standard Oil Company, under the Rob*234inson-Patman Act,1 to sell gasoline to four comparatively large “jobber” customers in Detroit at a less price per gallon than it sold like gasoline to many comparatively small service station customers in the same area. The company’s defenses were that (1) the sales involved were not in interstate commerce and (2) its lower price to the jobbers was justified because made to retain them as customers and in good faith to meet an equally low price of a competitor.2 The Commission, with one…