ROGERS v. DOUGLAS TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE, INC.

No. 17401.

266 F.2d 636 (1959)

B. B. ROGERS et al., Appellants, v. DOUGLAS TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE, INC., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Alexander, Norman M. Littell, Washington, D. C., John G. Kopp, J. Edwin Peavy, Waycross, Ga., for appellants.

E. Kontz Bennett, Waycross, Ga., Harold F. Baker, Washington, D. C., R. Glenn Key, Winston-Salem, N. C., Montgomery L. Preston, George E. Maddox, Douglas, Ga., for appellees, Bennett, Pedrick & Bennett, Waycross, Ga., Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before RIVES, JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This action is for treble damages for alleged violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act1 in the allocation of selling time among the tobacco warehouses on the Douglas, Georgia, market. Most of the facts out of which this case arises, together with a description of the tobacco auction system, are set forth in our opinion on former appeal2 and need not be repeated at length. The original...

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