Twin Ports Oil Co. v. Pure Oil Co.

NORDBYE, District Judge.:

Plaintiff, a jobber in-gasoline and allied products, alleges a conspiracy among and by the above-named defendant oil companies to raise prices and to make uniform certain so-called jobbers’ contracts, so as to prevent plaintiff in the event its dealings were not satisfactory with one of the major oil companies, .from entering into a contract with any other one of the so-called majors. In proving the conspiracy alleged, plaintiff seeks to rely, on the method of proof provided by the Clayton Amendment to ..the- Sherman AntiTrust Act.

The complaint alleges the rendering…