SUCKOW BORAX MINES CONSOL. v. BORAX CONSOLIDATED

No. 27646.

81 F.Supp. 301 (1948)

SUCKOW BORAX MINES CONSOLIDATED, Inc., et al. v. BORAX CONSOLIDATED, LIMITED, et al.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

November 22, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman W. Arnold, of Washington, D. C., and Sterling Carr, of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Ray J. Coleman and Coleman & McDonald, all of Los Angeles, Cal., and Maurice E. Harrison and Moses Lasky and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Borax Consolidated, Ltd., Pacific Coast Borax Co., United States Borax Co., James M. Gerstley, Frank M. Jenifer and Bank of America Nat. Trust & Savings Ass'n as Executor of Last Will and Testament of Clarence M. Rasor, Deceased.

Vincent H. O'Donnell, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Stauffer Chemical Co.

John L. Reith, of Oakland, Cal., for defendant West End Chemical Co.

Oliver & Donnally and Fulton, Walter & Halley, all of New York City, and Charles A. Beardsley, of Oakland, Cal., for defendant American Potash & Chemical Corporation.


ROCHE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this treble damage action under the Federal Anti-Trust Laws, 15 U.S.C.A. § 15 and 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 and 2, to recover $15,000,000.00 for damages alleged to have been sustained by them as a result of a general conspiracy on the part of the defendants, unlawfully and in violation of the Sherman and Clayton Acts, to monopolize and restrain trade in the borax industry.

Plaintiffs allege that this said conspiracy...

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