Journal of Commerce Pub. Co. v. Tribune Co.

BAKER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant failed in its suit for injunction and damages on account of acts (quoting from the bill) “of conspiracy, unfair competition, monopoly, restraint of trade, boycotting, wrongful and malicious interference with contractual and voluntary relations.”

Respecting federal jurisdiction of the controversies, the bill rested on two grounds: Violations of federal anti-trust laws; diversity of citizenship, whereby the federal court was obliged to determine an intrastate controversy ruled exclusively by intrastate law.

Concerning remedies, the bill also bore a double aspect:…