PETEREIT v. S.B. THOMAS, INC.

Nos. 192, 193. Dockets 93-9293, 93-9299.

63 F.3d 1169 (1995)

Robert PETEREIT; Robert J. Nardello; Richard SanAngelo, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. S.B. THOMAS, INC., Defendant-Appellant. Eric Carl AHLQUIST; David Lee Adkins; Richard Earl Desso; James Michael Lonergan; Anthony Frank Pitrone; John Alan Strasser; Wayne Blair Anderson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. S.B. THOMAS, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Horowitz, Stamford, CT (Christopher M. Graham, Kelley Drye & Warren, of counsel), for defendant-appellant S.B. Thomas, Inc.

Paul Ruszczyk, Cheshire, CT (Dice, Maloney & Lenz, P.C., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees Robert Petereit, et al.

Richard S. Order, Hartford, CT (Kevin N. Reynolds, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees Eric Ahlquist, et al.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, KEARSE, and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This litigation is between a manufacturer and a number of its distributors in the State of Connecticut. The distributors are of course somewhat at the mercy of the manufacturer whose products they distribute. For that reason they might believe they stand in the shoes of a David challenging a Goliath. Yet, casting the instant suit in terms of the biblical story, the small entrepreneur against all odds taking on the large corporation, does...

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