Chicago, Wilmington & Vermilion Coal Co. v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding.
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Writ or Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. On January 19, 1903, a special grand jury returned into the criminal court of Cook county an indictment, containing five counts, against the corporations named as plaintiffs in error, charging said corporations with having entered into a conspiracy to do an'illegal act injurious to the public trade and with entering into and being parties to a pool or combination, the object of said conspiracy and combination being to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
It is first urged that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. It will be remembered two of the counts (the second and fourth) charge a conspiracy as at common law, the first and third a violation of section 46 of the Criminal Code and the fifth a violation of section 1 of the Anti-trust act of 1891.'
The first point made against the indictment is, that the second and fourth counts do not charge a conspiracy at common law, in this: that the acts charged are not criminal or unlawful. Those counts charge that the object of the conspiracy was unlawful, and not that its…
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- People v. . SheldonNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- People ex rel. Akin v. Butler Street Foundry & Iron Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Thomas v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
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