United States v. Columbia Gas & Electric Corp.

NIELDS, District Judge.

Motion under sub-division (e) of rule 12 of the new Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U. S.C.A. following section 723c.

The complaint charges defendants with having entered into a continuing combination and conspiracy in the early part of 1930 to restrain interstate commerce in natural gas among the States of Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan, and to monopolize and attempt to monopolize such trade and commerce by crushing the American Fuel and Power system, the only competitor of the Columbia system engaged in transporting gas from the Kentucky fields to markets in…