Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Grovier-Starr Produce Co.

Grovier-Starr Produce Company was a reputable company, engaged in the wholesale fruit and vegetable business. Its headquarters were in Hutchinson, Kansas; it had warehouses at Great Bend, Larned, Dodge City, Liberal and Wichita; it had about twenty-five trucks practically all of which were equipped for cooling; and it had about one hundred employees. In 1933, it wrote Anheuser-Busch, Incorporated, at Saint Louis, Missouri, seeking to become wholesale distributor for Budweiser beer in its trade territory. W. L. Suycott, district manager of Anheuser-Busch in Oklahoma, Western Kansas, and the…