Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce v. United States

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The main contention of the appellants is that the conspiracy proved restrained only intrastate commerce, of which the District Court had no jurisdiction. For an understanding of this argument, some statement is necessary of how the poultry business was conducted and how the appellants interfered with it. To summarize is necessarily to omit, and almost inevitably results in a statement which to one party or the other seems vitally defective. The summary now to be given attempts to draw the picture only in broadest outline.

At least 98 per cent, of the live poultry coming…