CAMPBELL SOUP CO. v. MARTIN

No. 10890.

202 F.2d 398 (1953)

CAMPBELL SOUP CO. et al. v. MARTIN.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Quinlan, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Richardson Dilworth, Philadelphia, Pa. (Aaron M. Fine, Robert McCay Green, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Green, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and GOODRICH and KALODNER, Circuit Judges.


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

The question involved in this appeal is the jurisdiction of a federal court to consider a moot case. The appellant is the unsuccessful defendant in a suit which the Campbell Soup Company brought against him in the fall of 1952. In the spring of that year the defendant, a farmer, executed a contract for the sale of his 1952 tomato crop. In violation of the terms of the contract he started selling tomatoes in the open market. Action was begun...

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