W. W. Mims v. Olin Kemp

The plaintiff, owner and publisher of a weekly newspaper in Edgefield County, South Carolina, instituted this action against seventeen named defendants seeking damages and injunctive relief for alleged violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. 1 Acting upon defendants’ motion, the district court dismissed the complaint on the ground that plaintiff’s interstate commerce contacts were insufficient to satisfy Sherman act jurisdiction. We find the circumstances of the dismissal improper and, accordingly, reverse.

Since the sole ground assigned in support of defendants’ motion to dismiss…