Alpha Distributing Company Of California, Inc. v. Jack Daniel Distillery

454 F.2d 442 1972 Trade Cases P 73,798 ALPHA DISTRIBUTING COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, INC., also doing business under the name and style of Alpha Distributing Company, Inc., Plaintiff, Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. JACK DANIEL DISTILLERY, LEM MOTLOW, PROP., INC., a corporation, Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation, a corporation, Defendants, Appellants, Cross-Appellees. Nos. 24541, 24542 and 24561. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Jan. 6, 1972. Rehearing Denied Feb. 9, 1972. A. B. Dunne (argued), Louis L. Phelps, of Dunne, Phelps & Mills, San Francisco, Cal., for Jack Daniel Distillery and others. J. Albert Hutchinson (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for Alpha Distributing Co. of Cal., Inc. Before MADDEN, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, * and HAMLEY and TRASK, Circuit Judges. HAMLEY, Circuit Judge: 1 Alpha Distributing Company of California, Inc. (Alpha), 1 brought this action against Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. (Jack Daniel), Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation (Brown-Forman), and others, 2 for damages, and for injunctive and declaratory relief, because of Jack Daniel's termination of Alpha's whiskey distributorship. Alpha commenced the…