Candido v. Wagonfeld

Plaintiff’s complaint is by a pharmacist retailer against defendants, likewise engaged in retail as well as wholesale business, under sections 369-a and 369-b of the General Business Law. It seeks to enforce the fair-trade contract of the manufacturers listed in the complaint.

It would seem desirable to hold decision within narrow compass, to avoid judicial involvement in an underlying basic issue essentially economic, with overtones of a nature political in a broad sense. For there is a fundamental clash of interests between the producer and distributor of merchandise on the one hand, and the…