UNITED STATES v. FOOD AND GROCERY BUREAU

No. 14952-Y-Cr.

41 F.Supp. 884 (1941)

UNITED STATES v. FOOD AND GROCERY BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Inc., et al.

District Court, S. D. California, C. D.

November 15, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom C. Clark, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and A. Andrew Hauk and Robert J. Rubin, Sp. Attys., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for the United States.

Mitchell, Johnson & Ludwick and Byron C. Hanna, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Certified Grocers of California, Ltd., Caler Grocery Company, Ltd., Clayton Whiteman, Sam Seelig, Morris Weisstein, Miller Allen, Henry J. Carty, T. I. Lingo, Isador Saul, and T. A. Von der Ahe.

Fred Horowitz, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Riccardi, Webster & Donahue and Wilton W. Webster, all of Pasadena, Cal., for defendants Colonial Wholesale Grocery Co., Ltd., State Wholesale Grocery Company, Market Basket, and W. L. Wright.

Sarau & Thompson and H. L. Thompson, all of Riverside, Cal., for defendants Alfred M. Lewis, Inc., and Paul A. Lewis.

J. Wesley Cupp, Otto Christensen, D. G. Montgomery, Beilensen & Berger, and Eugene Sax, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Food and Grocery Bureau of Southern California, Inc., Southern California Retail Grocers Association, Spartan Grocers, Ltd., United Jewish Retail Grocers of California, S. M. White, E. G. de Statute, Myer Pransky, Clarence M. Plumridge, Harry R. Zenor, George Hagmann, Jr., and Ben Roth.

Williamson, Hoge & Judson, Harold Judson, and Emil Steck, Jr., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Smart & Final Co., Ltd., and A. W. Lutz.

Lawler Felix & Hall and Max Felix, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Haas, Baruch & Company, Karl Triest, and Ralph R. Brubaker.


YANKWICH, District Judge (after stating facts as above).

On the Demurrer:

A thorough study of the indictment, in the light of the latest decisions on the subject, leads me to the conclusion that it charges with sufficient certainty a conspiracy, the object of which is "to restrain or control the supply entering and moving in interstate commerce or the price of it in interstate markets," and which the Supreme Court, ever since the second Coronado case...

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