Legal Opinion
Spartan Grain & Mill Co. v. Ayers
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 3, 1978No. 76-2845PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
Chicken feed transactions in northeastern Georgia produced this important antitrust litigation involving integrated poultry operations. Spartan Grain & Milling Company (Spartan), a seller of chicken feed, sued chicken producers (Virgil Ayers, W. C. Meaders, Jr., Boyce Blackmon, and Joe Acker) for the unpaid balances of their feed bills. The producers counterclaimed, maintaining that Spartan had violated several provisions of the antitrust acts. Joe Acker, the fourth producer, filed his own antitrust suit against Spartan. The district court directed a verdict for the…
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