SUPERMARKETS GENERAL CORP. v. GRINNELL CORPORATION

Nos. 172 thru 178, Dockets 73-1640-73-1643, 73-1879, 73-1883 and 73-1887.

490 F.2d 1183 (1974)

SUPERMARKETS GENERAL CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. CITY OF DETROIT et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. MANHATTAN-WARD, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees. 1225 VINE STREET BUILDING, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRINNELL CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey M. Kalmus, New York City (Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen & Kamin, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants Supermarkets General Corp. and subsidiaries.

Bud G. Holman, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, Denis McInerney, Thomas F. Curnin, and Allen S. Joslyn, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee Grinnel Corp.

White & Case, New York City, Macdonald Flinn, and Thomas McGanney, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee American District Telegraph Co.

Kelley, Drye, Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis, New York City, Bud G. Holman, and Thomas R. Cosgrove, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee Holmes Electric Protective Co.

Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher, New York City, William F. Sondericker, and Joseph M. Burke, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee Automatic Fire Alarm Co. of Delaware.

Before LUMBARD, FRIENDLY and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

After the decision in United States v. Grinnell Corporation, 384 U.S. 563, 86 S.Ct. 1698, 16 L.Ed.2d 778 (1966), that Grinnell and others had engaged in unlawful monopolization of the business of providing central station protection services, many customers, including appellants (hereafter Supermarkets), and competitors commenced private treble damage actions, mostly in the District Court for the Southern District of New...

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