News, Inc. v. Buescher

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action seeking to recover damages on the ground that defendants wrongfully destroyed plaintiffs’ existing and prospective business. Paragraph IV of the complaint alleges that defendants induced an employee of plaintiffs, one John Collier, to conspire with defendants to destroy the business and breach his duty of good faith to plaintiffs. Paragraph V alleges an actual conspiracy between the defendants and said employee. Paragraph VII sets forth other inducements and misrepresentations by defendants.

Defendants promptly moved to dismiss the…