VENTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC. v. NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO.

Nos. 1212, 1213, Dockets 81-7069, 81-7107.

685 F.2d 41 (1982)

VENTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FUEL GAS COMPANY, Defendant, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation and Flint Oil & Gas Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1982.

Certiorari Denied November 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant S. Lewis, New York City (LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, Frederick R. Dettmer, Charles C. Platt, New York City, Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber, Buffalo, N. Y., William L. Rieth, Robert E. Glanville, Buffalo, N. Y. of counsel), for defendant-appellant National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.

Robert B. Conklin, Buffalo, N. Y. (Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Flint Oil & Gas Co., Inc.

James M. Hartman, Rochester, N. Y. (Harris, Beach, Wilcox, Rubin & Levey, Rochester, N. Y., Edward C. Hooks, Eugene C. Holloway, III, Richard L. Smith, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge, and SAND, District Judge.


Certiorari Denied November 8, 1982. See 103 S.Ct. 362.

SAND, District Judge.

National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation ("Distribution") and Flint Oil & Gas Company, Inc. ("Flint") appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Elfvin, J.) awarding plaintiff Venture Technology, Inc. ("Venture") $1,500,000 in trebled damages. After an eight week trial, and one week of deliberation, the jury found that the...

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