BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER CO. v. MASTERS MAIL ORDER CO.

No. 7250.

240 F.2d 684 (1957)

BISSELL CARPET SWEEPER COMPANY, Appellant, v. MASTERS MAIL ORDER COMPANY OF WASHINGTON, D. C., Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., Baltimore, Md. and Gilbert H. Weil, New York City, (Alfred T. Lee, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Norman Diamond, Washington, D.C., (Thurman Arnold, Washington, D. C., James Robert Miller, H. R. & J. R. Miller, Silver Springs, Md., and Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The question for decision on this appeal is whether the Maryland Fair Trade Act is violated by the advertisement in Maryland of goods sold below fair trade prices in the District of Columbia, which is a free trade jurisdiction.

The Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company is a Michigan corporation and is engaged throughout the United States in the business of manufacturing, selling and distributing carpet sweepers. All of its merchandise bears...

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