Merchants' Stock & Grain Co. v. Board of Trade of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern! District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Contempt proceedings by the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago and others against the Merchants’ Stock & Grain Company and others. From a decree convicting defendants of a criminal contempt and assessing fines directed to be paid one-fourth to the government'and three-fourths to the complainants, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
This case was heretofore submitted and decided by this court. Merchants’ Stock & Grain Co. et al. v. Board of Trade et al., 187 Fed. 398, 109 C. C. A. 230. The Supreme Court of the United States having held in Re Merchants’ Stock & Grain Co., 223 U..S. 639, 32 Sup. Ct. 339, 56 L. Ed. 584, that the contempt here in question was criminal as distinguished from civil, the case was. ordered reargued, and has been again submitted.
The board of- trade of the city of Chicago brought suit against the Merchants’ Stock & Grain Company, Francis J. Miner, Patrick A. .Stephens,, and…
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