Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.

ROBSON, District Judge.

The above captioned actions are part of the more than nineteen hundred related treble damage antitrust actions involving the electrical equipment industry which were filed throughout the country during the early 1960’s. 1 Plaintiffs in the instant cases are seeking damages for alleged overcharges on their purchases of power switchgear assemblies.

Seventeen of the twenty-one power switchgear assembly actions originally brought in this District have been dismissed. Twenty-seven additional power switchgear assembly cases have been transferred here from six other districts,…