American Export Door Corp. v. John A. Gauger Co.

One of the principal industries in the states of Washington and Oregon for years past has been that of the manufacture of doors and other joinery products from Pacific coast fir, a substantial part of such products having been exported to foreign markets, there meeting in competition like products chiefly manufactured in Sweden. Competition has been keen, and at times, at least, prices have not been satisfactory; and so, to better these conditions, nine corporations engaged in the business we have just described joined in organizing the respondent American Export Door Corporation and brought…