Revlon Nail Enamel Corp. v. Charmley Drug Shop

This is a final hearing in a cause on the so-called Fair Trade act. Rev. Stat. 56:4-3 to 6. The method adopted by complainant in order to take advantage of the statute was to make a price-fixing contract with only one of the dealers retailing its product — nail polish — and then to notify the other dealers and the trade in general, of the existence of that contract and the price so established.

No valid objection can be taken to this procedure. While most producers make identical price-fixing contracts with a large number of their customers, that course is unnecessary; a single valid contract…