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INDEPENDENT DIRECTORY CORP. v. FEDERAL TRADE COM'N

No. 158, Docket 21769.

188 F.2d 468 (1951)

INDEPENDENT DIRECTORY CORP. et al. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hays, St. John, Abramson & Schulman, New York City, John Schulman, Osmond K. Fraenkel, Jacob Steinfeld and Irwin Karp, all of New York City, of counsel, for petitioners.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City, for American Tel. & Tel. Co., New York Tel. Co., New England Tel. & Tel. Co. and Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.

Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York City, for Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.

W. T. Kelly, General Counsel, James W. Cassedy, Asst. General Counsel, Alan B. Hobbes, all of Washington, D. C., for Federal Trade Commission.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CHASE and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners, who are two corporations which publish directories and two individuals who are officers in such corporations, are seeking to have set aside a cease and desist order of the Federal Trade Commission.

The order required the petitioners to stop a practice they had been using in soliciting advertising by mail. This practice was to send to a prospective customer one of the petitioners' order blanks to which was pasted one of...

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