INTERBOROUGH NEWS CO. v. CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

No. 287, Docket 23487.

225 F.2d 289 (1955)

INTERBOROUGH NEWS COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Curtis Circulation Company, S-M News Company, Inc., McCall Corporation, Popular Science Publishing Company, Inc., Meredith Publishing Company, Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Hearst Magazines, Inc., Macfadden Publications, Inc., Pocket Books, Inc., Walter D. Fuller, Benjamin Allen, Victor E. Lance, William A. Rogers, Robert E. Haig, Sol N. Himmelman, and S. O. Shapiro, Defendants-Appellees, Fawcett Publications, Inc., Hillman Periodicals, Inc., National Comics Publications, Inc., Independent News Co., Inc., Publishers Distributing Corporation, Field Enterprises, Inc., Roscoe Fawcett, Allan Adams, O. J. Elder, Alexander L. Hillman, Philip Keenan, Paul H. Sampliner, Harry Donenfeld, Irving S. Manheimer, Robert F. DeGraff, Wallis E. Howe, Jr., and George B. Davis, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Webster Sheffield & Chrystie, New York City (Bethuel M. Webster, John V. Lindsay and Bancroft G. Davis, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City (Albert R. Connelly and Edward C. Perkins, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees The Curtis Pub. Co., Curtis Circulation Co., Walter D. Fuller, Benjamin Allen and Victor E. Lance.

Whitman, Ransom & Coulson, New York City (Robert E. Coulson, Forbes D. Shaw and E. Kendall Gillett, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees S-M News Co., Inc., McCall Corp., Popular Science Pub. Co., Inc., Meredith Pub. Co. and William A. Rogers.

Lord, Day & Lord, New York City (Thomas F. Daly and John W. Castles 3d, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee The Reader's Digest Ass'n, Inc.

McCauley & Henry, New York City (Thomas A. Brennan and Harvey L. Lipton, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Hearst Magazines, Inc., and Robert E. Haig.

Joseph Schultz, New York City, for defendants-appellees Macfadden Publications, Inc., S. O. Shapiro and Sol N. Himmelman.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Samuel J. Silverman and Jay H. Topkis, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Pocket Books, Inc.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, MEDINA, Circuit Judge, and DIMOCK, District Judge.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

In this triple-damage case, based upon an alleged conspiracy or combination among defendants to restrain trade and to monopolize in violation of the anti-trust laws, Sections 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 15, 26; Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 2, plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered at the close of plaintiff's case, dismissing the complaint "on the ground that on the facts and the...

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