Sullivan v. Associated Billposters & Distributors of United States
District Court, S.D. New York
At Law. Separate actions by Hannah Sullivan, as assignee of the C. J. Sullivan Advertising Company, by the Charles A. Ramsay Company, by the William H. Rankin Company, and by Joseph D. McManus, against the Associated Billposters and 'Distributers of the United States and others, to recover treble damages under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.
These cases all come up on demurrers by certain of the defendants to the complaints. The common features of the various complaints are as follows:
The posting of bills or posters on billboards is a form of advertising necessary to the successful conduct of various branches of interstate and foreign commerce. This posting involves three different parties and two different transactions. There is the advertiser, who wishes to promote publicity in respect to his business; the lithographer, who manufactures the posters and sends them to the billposter to be placed;…
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- Swift & Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Loewe v. LawlorSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Hopkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Van Cott v. . PrenticeNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- von Au v. MagenheimerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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