Legal Opinion
General Industries Corp. v. Hartz Mountain Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1987No. Nos. 85-5104, 85-5105 and 85-5111PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment for treble damages in favor of General Industries (GI), a terminated dealer, against Hartz Mountain Corporation (Hartz), a pet supplies manufacturer. At issue is whether GI produced sufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict that Hartz violated §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2. We affirm the district court’s judgment on the verdict under § 2 of the Sherman Act.
*798GI, owned principally by R.W. Neiberger, Sr. and his son, D.W. Neiberger, Jr., became a distributor of Hartz pet products for a five-state region1 in…
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