BOOKER v. RALSTON PURINA CO., INC.

No. 81-5578.

699 F.2d 334 (1983)

W. Ed BOOKER, Harriet A. Booker, W. Ed Booker, III, a partnership, d/b/a Booker Trading Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RALSTON PURINA COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen R. Claiborne, Daniel, Claiborne & Lewallen, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert R. Campbell, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.

Before KEITH and MERRITT, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity action for damages arising from a breach of contract brought by W. Ed Booker, a citizen of Tennessee doing business as the Booker Trading Company, against the Ralston Purina Company, Incorporated (Ralston), a Missouri corporation.

During 1973, Booker, a long-time consultant in the food marketing business, developed a new method of packaging entree meals. Through...

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