Anderson v. Jett

JUDGE BENNETT

delivered the opinion of the court.

The steamboats Blue Wiug and Hornet were, prior to the fifteenth day of September, 1885, rivals in the freight and passenger trade on the Kentucky river; rather they were rivals as public carriers on said river. On the fifteenth day of September, 1885, the appellant, George W. Anderson, as the sole owner of the Blue Wing, and Silas P. Douthit, on behalf of the appellees and himself, as the controlling and managing owner of the Hornet, entered into a written agreement, by which it was agreed that, in order to prevent the rivalry that then existed…