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Producers Drop Lawsuit Against Milk Price LawAdams Dairy Inc.. of St. Louis and four allied milk producers Thursday dropped a lawsuit they had filed in Circuit Court here in an attempt to break the state’s Unfair Milk Sales Practices Act.Adams gave up the case as a •result of a Jan. S Supreme Court ruling which upheld the act in a similar case instigated by the Borden' Company.Adams had sought a Circuit Court injunction to prevent Commissioner of Agriculture Don Thomason from enforcing the act, which controls some competitive milk marketing procedures.The milk producing firm attacked the act as unconstitutional, discriminatory and said it was interfering with sale of products.Before the case was dismissed, Assistant Atty. Gen. Wayne Waldo asked the court for an injunction to stop Adams from continuing what he called illegal milk merchandising practices aimed at destroying competition and creating a monopoly.Waldo's motion was denied by Special Judge George P. Adams of Mexico.The attorney general’s office said Adams in^ several instances gave some of its producis at no cost to consumers in an attempt to destroy competition., 'Die Bordon Company^ had filed ; iuit- against former commissioner of 'agriculture John Sam Williamson. in January,-'1961;Borden won a first round,decision in Cole County Circuit Court, but lost the case when the Supreme Court upheld the milk sales act.Parties in the Adams case included Adams Dairy Company, Blue Springs; Cloverleaf Dairy Inc., Springfield; and Weisenborn Dairy Inc., St. Joseph, all either owned or party controlled .by the .Adams corporation.Ti$6soexruin;te]Wimj♦wzmithiiVYaiibetroFICla*CimmDClhibwuirito
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Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1962
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