United States v. Wilshire Oil Company of Texas

HILL, Circuit Judge.

On April 5, 1966, a federal grand jury for the District of Kansas indicted ten corporations 1 charging each with having violated 15 U.S.C. § 1. Specifically the indictment charged “the defendants and co-conspirators entered into and engaged in a combination and conspiracy in unreasonable restraint of the hereinbefore described interstate trade and commerce in liquid asphalt in violation of Section 1 of the * * * Sherman Act.” All defendants except Wilshire plead nolo contendere and were subsequently fined from $25,000 to $40,-000 each. Wilshire’s case was tried to a jury…