Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Ass'n v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts, which involve the determination of whether an arrangement between certain retail lumbermen’s associations in regard to their relations with wholesale dealers amounted to a combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade within the prohibitions of the Sherman Act, are stated in the opinion. The Sherman Act prohibits undue limitations on competitive conditions.
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APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The facts, which involve the determination of whether an arrangement between certain retail lumbermen’s associations in regard to their relations with wholesale dealers amounted to a combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade within the prohibitions of the Sherman Act, are stated in the opinion. The Sherman Act prohibits undue limitations on competitive conditions. The combination, or concerted action, of these defendants in distributing circulars stating the true position of lumbermen in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
These are appeals from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York in an action brought by the United States "under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209), having for its object an injunction against certain alleged combinations of retail lumber dealers, which, it was averred, had entered into a conspiracy to prevent wholesale dealers from selling directly to consumers of lumber. . TÉe defendants are various lumber associations composed largely of retail lumber dealers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut,…
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