Francis G. Bragen v. Hudson County News Company, Inc

GANEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, a small retailer, brought this action under § 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 2, claiming inter alia that by reason of defendant’s monopolization of the distribution of the better known newspapers, magazines and paperback books in Hudson County, New Jersey, it has compelled him, as a condition of doing business with it, to accept publications which he did not order or wish to sell. 1 The complaint goes on to aver that following his rejection of delivered unordered publications, defendant has refused to supply him with the publications that he had…