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CRANSTON v. BLUHM

33 Wis.2d 192 (1966)

CRANSTON and another, Appellants, v. BLUHM and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

January 3, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief and oral argument by David D. Brown of Green Bay.

For the respondents there was a brief by Peickert, Anderson, Fisher, Shannon & O'Brien of Stevens Point, for Prudential Theatres Company of Wisconsin, Inc., and by Weber & Bolte of Wausau, for Frank Bluhm, and oral argument by John E. Shannon, Jr., and Richard J. Weber.

CURRIE, C. J.

This court has defined a conspiracy as "a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some unlawful purpose or to accomplish by unlawful means some purpose not in itself unlawful."1

The gist of the alleged conspiracy is that Bluhm and Prudential conspired to close the Lyric Theatre and thus eliminate the only theatre in Stevens Point which competed for patronage with Prudential's Fox...

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