Taggart v. Rutledge

OPINION AND ORDER

LOVELL, District Judge.

This action arises out of Conoco, Inc.’s decision to sell as a “package” its properties in the area of Bozeman, Montana, and the subsequent sale to the plaintiffs of a single station within that package.

Plaintiffs (hereinafter also “Taggarts”), the owners and operators of the Four Corners Conoco station near Bozeman, filed suit in 1982 to recover damages from Conoco, Inc., and Continental Oil Company (hereinafter “Conoco”), and from Conoco jobber David S. Rutledge, for alleged federal antitrust violations as well as numerous alleged state law violations.