Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co. v. News Publishing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Wood county: Byron B. Park, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a corporation, brought an action against the defendant, a corporation, to recover the purchase price of print paper sold it.
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Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Wood county: Byron B. Park, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a corporation, brought an action against the defendant, a corporation, to recover the purchase price of print paper sold it. Defendant admitted plaintiff’s cause of action but counterclaimed for damages, alleging upon information and belief that plaintiff was one of a number of paper manufacturing conspirators operating under the name of the “News Print Manufacturers Association” and engaged in creating and maintaining a monopoly in print paper and in creating and maintaining exorbitant prices…
1Opinion of the CourtVinje, J.
A consideration and decision of the questions presented by plaintiff’s appeal will also dispose of the question raised by the defendant’s appeal.
Plaintiff claims (a) that sec. 4, ch. 357, Laws 1897, now sec. 1791m, Stats. 1919, granting immunity in certain cases, does not relate to or include private suits between private parties, but relates exclusively to prosecutions by the state to suppress unlawful monopoly; (b) that since it does not affirmatively appear that the statutes of limitation have run on the alleged offenses and that suits therefor are not now pending, no disclosures can be…
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