Tooke Reynolds v. Bastrop Ice Storage Co.

This suit is brought under Act 11, Extra Session of 1915, to collect $24,985.47, this being triple the amount of loss alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff as a result of the defendant’s unlawful manipulations to monopolize and restrain the retail ice trade in the town of Bastrop.

Defendant excepted to the petition on the grounds: First,' that Act 11 of 1915, Ex. Sess., under which the suit is brought, is unconstitutional ; and, second, that the petition discloses no cause of action. These exceptions were overruled by the trial judge and defendant appealed, as required by section 13 of…