Overland Publishing Co. v. Union Lithograph Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment against it entered after general demurrers to the complaint had been sustained. The complaint asks for injunctive relief and for damages; its allegations are lengthy and complex. In substance, they are as follows:

Plaintiff is a corporation doing business under the laws of California. Certain named defendants and some two hundred others, whose names are unknown to plaintiff, composed an organization known as the “Printers’ Board of Trade.” Said association is formed for the purpose, among others (as set forth in its by-laws) “to investigate…