General Electric Co. v. Masters, Inc.

We are again confronted with an attack upon the so-called Feld-Crawford “ Fair Trade Law ” (General Business Law § 369-a et seq., L. 1935, ch. 976, re-enacted L. 1940, ch. 195). This statute first came before us for review in Doubleday, Doran & Co. v. Macy & Co. (269 N. Y. 272), decided January 7, 1936, wherein plaintiff Doubleday sought to enjoin Macy, a nonsigner of its fair trade agreements, from selling three of plaintiff’s books at less than their stipulated fair trade prices. We held that the “ non-signer ” provision was unconstitutional, because by its means the Legislature was…