Richard A. Spiering v. Fairmont Foods Company, Inc.

CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action in the district court to recover damages from defendant for alleged breaches of contract and to obtain specific performance of that contract regarding distribution of the latter’s dairy products. The individual plaintiffs are milk route retail salesmen who formed a partnership, plaintiff Paramount Milk Distributors, as a vendor of Fairmont’s bottled milk and milk products.

The relationship between the parties began in 1961, when plaintiffs picked up dairy products at Fairmont’s suburban plant and delivered them to consumers in the…