Shell Oil Co. v. State Tire & Oil Co.

ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of ap-pellee State Tire & Oil Company, hereinafter called State Tire, which filed an action claiming that appellant, Shell Oil Company, Inc., hereinafter called Shell, unlawfully interfered with its business, depriving State Tire of many of its customers and destroying its profits. A second count in the amended complaint alleged that the contract between the parties had been wrongfully terminated by Shell, to the injury of State Tire. Fred Montesi, president of State Tire, was joined as defendant, and…