Newark Morning Ledger Co. v. Suburban Newsdealers' Ass'n

Backes, V. C.

The Suburban Newsdealers' Association of the Oranges is •composed of small shop keepers in that region who sell newspapers including the Newark Morning Ledger. That paper recently raised the price from $2.10 to $2.25 per hundred which is retailed by the dealer at three cents per copy. The members of the association refuse to handle the paper unless the price is restored and the Ledger refuses, and in this impasse the Ledger charges the association and its members with boycotting the paper. It is the right of the newsdealers to combine and to refuse to handle the paper except upon…