Roberts v. Fuquay-Varina Tobacco Board of Trade, Inc.

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

Problems in the marketing of tobacco, in the context of the anti-trust laws, are again before us. The plaintiffs again appeal from the denial of an injunction against enforcement of a bylaw of the Fuquay-Varina Tobacco Board of Trade which allots to a new warehouseman a smaller proportion of selling time per unit of selling space than is allotted to older warehousemen.

When the case was first before us, we concluded that the allotment of less selling time to new warehouse units was not clearly unreasonable in light of the great excess of existing warehouse space and the…