Memphis Steam Laundry-Cleaners, Inc. v. Lindsey

This is a suit under the common law for damages alleged to have been sustained by the appellee J. B. Lindsey, doing business as Lindsey’s Cleaners, because of a campaign of unfair competition conducted by the officers and employees of the appellant corporation, Memphis Steam Laundry-Cleaners, Inc., for the expressed purpose of destroying the appellee’s established business of cleaning and pressing men’s suits and ladies’ dresses within the territory hereinafter mentioned.

The case was submitted to the jury under instructions which permitted the assessment of punitive as well as actual damages,…