McIntyre v. Weinert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 320, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., March T., 1899, No. 320, sustaining demurrer. Trespass for libel.
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Appeal, No. 320, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., March T., 1899, No. 320, sustaining demurrer. Trespass for libel. The statement averred that the defendant was a member of an association of wholesale produce dealers known as the Philadelphia Produce Credit and Collection Bureau, and that about March 1,1899, defendant sent to various members of said association the following communication : “For Exclusive Use of Philadelphia Produce Credit and Collection Bureau. REPORT OF INDEBTEDNESS. eobm b. Philadelphia, March 1,1899. To the Philadelphia Produce Credit…
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Mb. Justice Mestrezat,
The facts of the case, as disclosed by the statement, are briefly as follows : The defendant and other wholesale produce dealers in the city of Philadelphia entered into an unlawful combination, known as the Philadelphia Produce Credit and Collection Bureau, and were in a conspiracy with each other to prevent the obtaining of produce by any retail dealer in said city, who might be in debt, or alleged to be in debt, to any member of said combination or association, and thereby to injure and destroy his business and unlawfully compel him to pay such debt. Under…
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