Scott Publishing Co. v. Columbia Basin Publishers, Inc.

Scott Publishing Co., Inc., appellant herein, in 1955 filed an action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, against Columbia Basin Publishers, Inc., and others, 1 appellees herein, seeking damages under the provisions of 15 U.S.C.A. §§15 and 26, 2 3 by reason of certain alleged violations of the antitrust laws by appellees. After extensive pretrial procedures and the signing of a pretrial order, the action was tried before the court sitting without a jury. The trial judge rendered a judgment in favor of the appellees (defendants below), and appellant filed a timely appeal to this court from that judgment. Jurisdiction was in the district court by reason of 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 15 and 26, and jurisdiction is in this court under 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1291 and 1294.

The opinion of the district court is reported as Scott Publishing Co. v. Columbia Basin Publishers et al., D.C.W.D. Wash.1959, 180 F.Supp. 754 , and appellant, in the statement of the case contained in its brief, has set out portions of that opinion which it admits accurately portray the background of the controversy. The facts as set out below are taken in part from those…