Commerce Oil Refining Corp. v. William W. Miner

WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

Commerce Oil Refining Corporation, Commerce hereinafter, a Delaware corporation, filed a complaint in two counts, in the court below against seventeen named defendants, all citizens of Rhode Island, as individuals, and nine of them as officers and directors of the Jamestown Protective Association. Commerce alleged in its first count that it had a license from the Town of Jamestown to erect and operate an oil refinery in an area of the town zoned for such use and that the defendants “unlawfully combined and conspired to harass, delay and prevent plaintiff from exercising…