BRANDT v. RENFIELD IMPORTERS, LTD.

No. 16157.

269 F.2d 14 (1959)

Harry BRANDT, d/b/a University City House of Liquors et al., Appellants, v. RENFIELD IMPORTERS, LTD., a Corporation et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. London, St. Louis, Mo. (Mortimer A. Rosecan and Irving M. Malnik, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellants.

Richmond C. Coburn, St. Louis, Mo. (Coburn & Croft, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellee Renfield Importers, Ltd.

R. Walston Chubb, St. Louis, Mo. (Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, St. Louis, Mo., Earl E. Pollock, Washington, D. C., Julius Lewis, Sonnenschein, Lautmann, Levinson, Rieser, Carlin & Nath, Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for appellee James B. Beam Distilling Co.

Lewis C. Green and Donald J. Meyer (Green, Hennings, Henry & Evans, St. Louis, Mo., and Walter D. Wile, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee Julius Wile Sons & Co., Inc.

Earl E. Pollock, Washington, D. C. (all of above counsel were on the respective briefs in support of motions to dismiss), for all appellees on motions to dismiss.

J. L. London, St. Louis, Mo. (all of above counsel were on appellant's brief in opposition to motions to dismiss), for appellants on motions to dismiss.

Before GARDNER, Chief Judge, and JOHNSEN and VOGEL, Circuit Judges.


GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This was an action brought by eighteen retail liquor dealers doing business in St. Louis, Missouri, and vicinity against fourteen distillers, distributors, wholesalers or retailers for certain alleged violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq., the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 12 et seq., and the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 13 et seq. The complaint alleged that the defendants created a monopoly in the...

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