Bowl America Incorporated v. Fair Lanes, Inc.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This private antitrust action under 15 U.S.C.A. § 15 seeks damages and injunctive relief against the largest chain of bowling establishments in Metropolitan Baltimore based upon alleged anticompetitive activities, principally in 1964, when defendants acquired the eight bowling establishments of its then-largest competitor. Those acquisitions — together with related acts claimed to have had the purpose and effect of restraining or destroying competition, and of injuring plaintiffs as potential and actual competitors of defendants in the operation of bowling establishments…