SEMMES MOTORS, INC. v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Nos. 861 and 862, Dockets 34447 and 34671.

429 F.2d 1197 (1970)

SEMMES MOTORS, INC., suing on behalf of itself and together with Ford Dealers Alliance, Inc., etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otis Pratt Pearsall, New York City (Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, and John A. Donovan, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

David Fisher, New York City (Manes, Sturim, Roth & Fisher, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees, and Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Allen Ravin, Alan E. Davis, Stanley L. Benn, Perth Amboy, N. J., on the brief.

Jerry S. Cohen, Washington, D. C., for National Automobile Dealers Association as amicus curiae.

Margaret Millus Maroldy, New Rochelle, N. Y., for New Jersey Automobile Dealers Association as amicus curiae.

Before WATERMAN, FRIENDLY and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This heated controversy, which at this early stage has already produced four and a half printed pages of docket entries in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, not to speak of those in a related action in the District Court for New Jersey, is between defendant Ford Motor Company and plaintiff Semmes Motors, Inc., Ford's dealer in the plush suburb of Scarsdale, N. Y., since 1949...

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