COMMERCE OIL REFINING CORPORATION v. MINER

No. 5944.

303 F.2d 125 (1962)

COMMERCE OIL REFINING CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellant, v. William W. MINER et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome B. Spunt, Providence, R. I., with whom Andrew P. Quinn, Daniel J. Murray and Letts & Quinn, Providence, R. I., were on the brief, for appellant.

William C. Dorgan, with whom James A. Higgins, Providence, R. I., Cornelius C. Moore, Salvatore L. Virgadamo, Francis J. Boyle, Jeremiah C. Lynch, Jr., Newport, R. I., Higgins & Slattery, Providence, R. I., and Moore, Virgadamo, Boyle & Lynch, Newport, R. I., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, ALDRICH, Circuit Judge and FORD, District Judge.


ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a relatively small, but important issue. In 1957 defendant-appellant Commerce Oil Refining Corp., a Delaware corporation, brought a diversity action in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island against plaintiffs-appellees Miner et al., residents of the island of Conanicut, Rhode Island, hereinafter collectively Miner. The complaint sought damages for conspiracy and an injunction preventing Miner...

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