GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY v. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO

No. 20279.

334 F.2d 480 (1964)

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY et al. and Carrier Corp., Appellants, v. The CITY OF SAN ANTONIO et al., Appellees. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO et al., Appellants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David T. Searls, Leroy Jeffers, Ross N. Sterling and Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Houston, Tex., Carl Wright Johnson, San Antonio, Tex., Jay H. Brown and Brown, Sparks & Erwin, Austin, Tex., Hilton E. Howell and Naman, Howell, Smith & Chase, Waco, Tex., for General Electric Co.

Walter P. Brenan, San Antonio, Tex., David Bland and Barrow, Bland, Rehmet & Singleton, Houston, Tex., for A. B. Chance Co., Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corp., Federal Pacific Electric Co.

B. J. Bradshaw, Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski and Leon Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. and Hubbard and Co.

Josh H. Groce and Groce & Hebdon, San Antonio, Tex., for C. H. Wheeler Mfg. Co., Ohio Brass Co., H. K. Porter Co., Inc., and Lapp Insulator Co.

John H. Wood, Jr., and Beckmann, Stanard, Wood & Vance, San Antonio, Tex., W. N. Blanton, Jr., of Butler, Binion, Rice & Cook, Houston, Tex., for I-T-E Circuit Breaker Co.

John J. McKay and McKay & Avery, Austin, Tex., for McGraw-Edison Co., Maloney Electric Co., and Wagner Electric Co.

W. Pat Camp and William C. Church, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for McGraw-Edison Co.

Bond Davis and Boyle, Wheeler, Gresham, Davis & Gregory, San Antonio, Tex., for Southern States Equipment Corp., Wagner Electric Corp., and Maloney Electric Co.

Ernest W. Clemens and Clemens, Knight, Weiss & Spencer, San Antonio, Tex., for Sangamo Electric Co.

Fred B. Werkenthin and Herring & Werkenthin, Austin, Tex., for Southern States Equipment Corp.

J. Burleson Smith and Cox, Smith & Smith, San Antonio, Tex., Donald S. Thomas and Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, Austin, Tex., for Westinghouse Electric Co.

Thad T. Hutcheson and Hutcheson, Taliaferro & Hutcheson, Houston, Tex., for Joslyn Mfg. & Supply Co., and Porcelain Insulator Corp.

Ben G. Sewell and McGregor, Sewell & Junell, Houston, Tex., for Worthington Corp.

W. L. Matthews, James D. Baskin, Jr., Richard E. Goldsmith, Matthews, Nowlin, MacFarlane & Barrett, San Antonio, Tex., Crawford B. Reeder, City Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for City of San Antonio, Tex.

Robert E. Sher and Sher, Oppenheimer & Harris, Washington, D. C., James W. Wilson and Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis, Reavley & Lochridge, Austin, Tex., for City of Austin, Tex., Lower Colorado River Authority, City of Brady, Tex., and Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., et al.

Doren R. Eskew, City Atty., Austin, Tex., for City of Austin, Tex.

Mac Umstattd, General Counsel Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, Tex., for Lower Colorado River Authority.

Carlton J. Smith, Waco, Tex., for Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., et al.

Before HUTCHESON and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and CONNALLY, District Judge.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal presents the following two questions arising in civil antitrust litigation in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas: (1) whether the statute of limitations set forth in Section 4B and 5(b) of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 15b, 16(b),1 is tolled by fraudulent concealment; and (2) whether the plaintiffs in private antitrust treble damage suits may use...

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