United States v. California Coöperative Canneries

This case is a sequel to Swift & Co. v. United States, 276 U. S. 311, decided March 19, 1928. It is here by a writ of certiorari for the determination of a question which aróse upon the going down of the mandate in the Swift case.

The suit-was commenced by the Government in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on February 27, 1920, against the leading' packers to prevent a long feared monopoly in meat and other food products. On that day a consent decree was entered. Nearly five years later, two of the defendants, Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., filed in the cause motions to vacate that…