WEEKS v. BARECO OIL CO.

No. 7603.

125 F.2d 84 (1941)

WEEKS et al. v. BARECO OIL CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

December 22, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl Edwin Seyfarth and Benton Atwood, both of Chicago, Ill., and Ernest A. Michels, of Minneapolis, Minn., for appellants.

David T. Searls, of Chicago, Ill., S. A. L. Morgan, of Amarillo, Tex., John E. Green, Jr., and Archie D. Gray, both of Houston, Tex., and Samuel Topliff, Ralph Horween, Hubert C. Merrick, Buell F. Jones, Weymouth Kirkland, John J. O'Shaughnessy, and James B. O'Shaughnessy, all of Chicago, Ill., Gene M. Woodfin, of Houston, Tex., S. A. Mitchell and R. D. Shewmaker, both of St. Louis, H. H. Thomas and L. E. Isaksen, both of Madison, Wis., R. L. Wagner, of Chicago, Ill., George W. Ray, Jr., of New York City, and David Fisher, of Chicago, Ill., (Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Francis, of Houston, Tex., Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, of St. Louis, Mo., Thomas, Orr & Isaksen, of Madison, Wis., Morgan, Culton, Morgan & Britain, of Amarillo, Tex., and Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellees.

Before EVANS and MAJOR, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This is a civil, statutory1 action to recover treble damages for injuries caused by an unlawful combination violative of the Anti-Trust Laws,2 and is an aftermath of a criminal prosecution therefor.3

Plaintiffs are two Illinois jobbers of gasoline. They sue on their own behalf, and as representatives of a class of approximately 900 Illinois jobbers...

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