Legal Opinion
Banana Distributors, Inc. v. United Fruit Company and Fruit Dispatch Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 24, 1959No. 25457_1PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by plaintiff and cross-appeal by defendants from different paragraphs of an interlocutory order entered October 14, 1958 which involved rulings with respect to the statute of limitations applicable in this action for treble damages under § 4 of the Clayton Act. Leave to appeal was granted to both parties under the recently enacted Interlocutory Appeals Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1292(b).
Plaintiff, a Connecticut corporation, was engaged in the business of selling in that state bananas purchased from defendants. Defendant United Fruit Company, a New Jersey…
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