Jerrold Electronics Corporation and Jerrold-Northwest, Inc. v. Wescoast Broadcasting Company, Inc., a Washington Corporation, D/B/A Kpq Radio

This is a private antitrust action wherein the plaintiff Wescoast Broadcasting Company, Inc., alleged that the defendants Jerrold Electronics Corporation and Jerrold-Northwest, Inc., had been guilty of violations of §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 2. After trial the jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff assessing plaintiff’s damages in the sum of $97,500 which was trebled, and .judgment, including an award of $32,500 as attorneys’ fees, was awarded plaintiff in the sum of $.325,000. The defendants have perfected this appeal from that judgment.

About the end of 1950 Jerrold Electronics Corporation (here called Jerrold) began the manufacture and sale of community television antenna systems. The parties stipulated that the following is a description of the nature and purpose of such systems. “Community television antenna systems are constructed in communities remote from television broadcasting stations and enable inhabitants of such communities to view television programs emanating from said television broadcasting stations. Television signals travel in straight lines. At a distance remote from a television broadcasting station the curvature of the…