Ca 79-3158 Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association, an Oklahoma Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in ruling that the plaintiff-appellant, the Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association, was barred from maintaining the suit by the so-called clean hands doctrine, the relief sought having been injunctive in nature. The complaint or petition as it is called in the state court in Oklahoma was originally filed July 16, 1976, in the District Court in the State and County of Oklahoma.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Oklahoma Retail Grocers Association is an organized trade association and also a corporation under…