A. C. Becken Co., an Illinois Corporation v. Gemex Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, A. C. Becken Co., an Illinois corporation, appeals from an adverse judgment entered in the district court in plaintiff’s action for treble damages brought under § 1 of the Sherman Act, 2 following a trial by the court without a jury. Defendant, The Gemex Corporation, a New Jersey corporation, is a manufacturer of watch bands, distributed by it nationally through wholesalers, including plaintiff (until August 2, 1956) and the latter’s two principal competitors, The Ball Company and Stein and Ellbo-gen Company.

1. According to plaintiff’s theory, defendant…