of all its business and in insolvency. It was pleaded that in 1947 appellee plant owners and others had unitized their oil and gas leases and commenced joint operation thereof in the Burnell and North Pettus Fields in three counties; that in 1949 appellees and others not parties jointly constructed, operated and owned a gas gathering system and gas recycling plant three *943 miles from the Danaho refinery, committing themselves to deliver their gas production to the plant; that the plant made finished motor gasoline and other refined products which were held in the sold from jointly owned and operated common storage tanks. It was averred that the plant-owner appellees entered into identical written contracts with appellee Triangle under which the plant products were sold by Triangle inthe same marketing area as Danaho's; that Triangle collected the proceeds of sales, retaining 4% and remitting 96% for distribution among the appellee plant owners in accordance with their respective ownership interests; that the owner of the largest plant interest, Pan American Petroleum Corporation, was made plant operator, acting for all owners at their joint expense in supervising operations, delivery of products and accounting, under general advice of a plant committee; that appellees also so refined and marketed gasoline from the production of others who owned no interest in the plant.
Danaho pleaded that appellees began about 1958 to "fix prices and to otherwise conspire together in such manner as to drive" it out of business and eliminate it as a competitor; that acting through Triangle they cut their