RIVER PLATE CORP. v. FORESTAL LAND, TIMBER & RY. CO., LTD.


185 F.Supp. 832 (1960)

RIVER PLATE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. FORESTAL LAND, TIMBER AND RAILWAY CO., LTD.; La Forestal S.A. deTierras, Maderas y Explotaciones Commerciales e Industriales; the Olson Importing Company, Inc.; Barkey Importing Co., Inc.; Michael Lees; James M. Cavanaugh; Protan S.R.L.; Herman J. Landauer; Carl O. Olson, Richard Olson and Richard S. Turner, individually and doing business as Olson Importing Company, a partnership; Jacob A. Barkey and George F. Taylor, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

August 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guggenheimer & Untermyer, New York City, Harry Hoffman, Marvin E. Pollock, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, Leo Gottlieb, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Forestal Land, Timber and Railways Company, Ltd. and La Forestal S.A. de Tierras, Maderas y Explotaciones Commerciales e Industriales.

Rosenman, Goldmark, Colin & Kaye, New York City, Seymour D. Lewis, Asa D. Sokolow, Gilbert S. Edelson, New York City, of counsel, for defendants Barkey Importing Co. Inc., Jacob A. Barkey and Protan S. R. L.

Emmet, Marvin & Martin, New York City, for defendants Olson Importing Company, Inc., Olson Importing Company, a Partnership, Carl O. Olson and Richard Olson, and Richard S. Turner.


FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge.

This is a private anti-trust suit alleging a conspiracy to monopolize trade and commerce in quebracho and wattle extracts used in the tanning of leather, in violation of the Sherman, Clayton, and Wilson Tariff Acts, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 27, 44. Broad injunctive relief and damages in the sum of $3,600,000 are sought.

Plaintiff River Plate Corporation is a Delaware corporation. The fourteen defendants named include...

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