SEMKE v. ENID AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION

Civ. No. 69-196.

320 F.Supp. 445 (1970)

L. G. SEMKE, d/b/a Semke Auto Mart, Plaintiff, v. ENID AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, Hurst Motor Co., a Corporation, Dierksen-Jones Buick Co., Inc., a Corporation, Fidelity Motors, a partnership composed of Jane E. Champlin, Executrix of the Estate of Joe N. Champlin, deceased, and Jane E. Champlin, as successor trustee for three testamentary trusts created under the Last Will and Testament of H. H. Champlin, deceased, Day Ford Company, a Corporation, Dean Pearson Dodge, Inc., a Corporation, Janzen Olds, Inc., a Corporation, Sam Norton, Jr. and Stanley B. Stuart, a Co-Partnership d/b/a Norton-Stuart Pontiac-Cadillac of Enid, the Enid Radiophone Company, a Corporation, the Enid Publishing Company, a Corporation, Joseph F. Hardy, Milton B. Garber, John W. Taylor, Pat Murphy, Jimmy B. Hurst, Sr., Fred L. Jones, Jane E. Champlin, Executrix of the Estate of Joe N. Champlin, Dean P. Pearson, Clarence J. Janzen, Leonard C. Northcutt, Clarence W. Durheim and Gene Kurz, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Oklahoma.

December 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Otjen, Jr., Enid, Okl., Harry Hobson, Jochems, Sargent & Blaes, Donald E. Lambdin, Blair, Matlack, Rogg, Foote & Lambdin, P. A., Wichita, Kan., for plaintiff.

Lynn Bullis, Jr., Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb & Thompson, Oklahoma City, Okl., E. B. Mitchell, Jr., Mitchell, Mitchell, DeClerck & Cox, Enid, Okl., for Day Ford Co., Earl Day, Gene Kurz, and Enid Automobile Dealers Assn.

Robert L. Gregory, Enid, Okl., for Hurst Motor Co., Jimmy B. Hurst, Sr.

Otjen & Carter, Enid, Okl., for Dierksen-Jones Buick Co., Inc., Dean Pearson Dodge, Inc., Sam Norton, Jr. and Stanley B. Stuart, d/b/a Norton-Stuart Pontiac Cadillac of Enid, Fred L. Jones and Dean B. Pearson.

L. W. McKnight, McKnight, Gasaway & McKnight, Enid, Okl., for Enid Radiophone Co., Enid Publishing Co., Milton B. Garber, John W. Taylor, Joseph F. Hardy, Pat Murphy, and Jim Hannon.

Harold J. Singer, Mitchell, Singer & Johnston, Enid, Okl., for Fidelity Motors, Inc., Joe M. Champlin, and Clarence Durheim.

Musser & Green, Enid, Okl., for Northcutt Chevrolet Co., Inc., Janzen Olds, Inc., Clarence J. Janzen, and Leonard C. Northcutt.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

DAUGHERTY, District Judge.

Defendants have moved for relief with respect to a jury verdict obtained by Plaintiff in this civil antitrust case. The verdict was returned in the amount of $1,500 in favor of Plaintiff and against all the Defendants in the case at the conclusion of the trial. Prior to trial, Plaintiff settled, on a covenant not to sue, with one Defendant, who was then dismissed. The settlement, which was not brought to the...

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