Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Appts. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE -EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction .of the Sherman Anti-trust Act of July 2, 1890, and whether defendants had violated its provisions, are stated in the opinion. The acquisition in 1899 by the Standard Oil Company óf New Jersey of the stocks of the other companies was not a combination of independent enterprises.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE -EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. The facts, which involve the construction .of the Sherman Anti-trust Act of July 2, 1890, and whether defendants had violated its provisions, are stated in the opinion. The acquisition in 1899 by the Standard Oil Company óf New Jersey of the stocks of the other companies was not a combination of independent enterprises. All of the companies had the same stockholders who in the various corporate organizations were carrying on parts of the one business. The business as a whole belonged to this body of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and 33 other corporations, John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller and five other individual defendants prosecute this appeal to reverse a decree of the court below. Such decree was entered upon a bill filed by the United States under authority of § 4, of the act of July 2,1890, c. 647, p. 209, known as the Anti-trust Act, and had for its object the enforcement of the provisions of that act. The record is inordinately voluminous, consisting of twenty-three volumes of printed matter, aggregating about twelve thousand- pages, containing a vast amount of…
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