WASHINGTON BREWERS INSTITUTE v. UNITED STATES

No. 10303.

137 F.2d 964 (1943)

WASHINGTON BREWERS INSTITUTE et al. v. UNITED STATES

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Denied October 25, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lenihan & Ivers, of Seattle, Wash., for appellants other than Regal Amber, William P. Baker, Acme Breweries, and Karl F. Schuster.

E. L. Skeel and Harry Henke, Jr., both of Seattle, Wash., for appellants Olympia Brewing, P. G. Schmidt, and A. D. Schmidt.

Bogle, Bogle & Gates, Cassius E. Gates, and Ray Dumett, all of Seattle, Wash., for appellants Columbia Breweries, East Idaho Brewing Co., J. F. Lanser, H. P. Lawton, and E. Louis Powell.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Moses Lasky, and Emil Hoerchner, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellants California State Brewers Institute and James G. Hamilton.

Chadwick, Chadwick & Mills and Stephen F. Chadwick, all of Seattle, Wash., for appellants Seattle Brewing, Spokane Brewery, W. H. Mackie, R. Besse, E. G. Sick, and G. W. Allen.

James A. Brown, of Spokane, Wash., for appellants Bohemian Breweries and E. F. Theis.

C. Stanley Skiles, of Boise, Idaho, for appellants Idaho Brewers and S. T. Collins.

Edwin Snow, of Boise, Idaho, for appellant Overland Beverage Co.

J. A. Howell, of Ogden, Utah, for appellants Becker-Products Co., Gus L. Becker and C. C. Wilcox.

John M. Pipes, of Portland, Ore., for appellants Brewers Institute of Oregon, G. F. Paulsen, Interstate Brewing Co. and G. V. Uhr.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellants Pacific Brewing and J. E. Knapp.

R. M. J. Armstrong and Albert L. Campodonico, both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellants Regal Amber Brewing and W. P. Baker.

Norman A. Eisner, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellants Acme Breweries and Karl F. Schuster.

Tom C. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles S. Burdell, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and J. Charles Dennis, U. S. Atty., John S. Harlow, Robert McFadden, and Allan Trumbull, Jr., Sp. Attys., Department of Justice, all of Seattle, Wash., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, HANEY and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied October 25, 1943. See 64 S.Ct. 89, 88 L.Ed. ___.

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are (a) twenty brewing concerns engaged in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of beer; (b) four statewide "institutes" formed by these brewing companies; and (c) thirty-two individual officers thereof. They were jointly indicted on charges of violating §§ 1 and 3 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 and 3. They demurred to the...

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