Fairmont Creamery Co. v. Darger

The plaintiff is a corporation of Nebraska, with its principal place of business in the city of Omaha, and *733engaged generally in the creamery business in Iowa, as well as elsewhere. It was indicted December 7, 1912, for unfair discrimination, in that, as was alleged, it had paid more for cream or butter fat in one locality than in another, in the absence of differences in grade or quality or cost of transportation- — -not to meet competition, but to crush a competitor. On trial, the court, on motion of the State, directed an acquittal, and in this action damages are claimed, for that, as is…