Court Opinion

ID: 9669865
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:10:14.297666+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:00.729749
License: Public Domain

Roberds, J.,
dissenting.
This, in my view, in the last analysis, is nothing but a price-war between private enterprises selling the same commodity — one type of war, at least, of benefit to the public, and one permitted to private institutions under our supposedly competitive form of free governmeut. And appellants started the war. It is not the first time in history that the aggressor has been the loser in the end. In any event, it is not to me a case calling for and justifying the use of the power and processes of the courts in the punishment of competitors who were defending themselves, and engaged in the reduction of prices to the public, a result certainly not undesirable at the present time.