United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. This was a bill filed by the United States against E. C. Knight Company and others, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charging that the defendants had violated the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2,1890, c. 647, entitled “ An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,” 26 Stat.209, “providing that every contract,…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. This was a bill filed by the United States against E. C. Knight Company and others, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charging that the defendants had violated the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2,1890, c. 647, entitled “ An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,” 26 Stat.209, “providing that every contract, combination in the form of trust, or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint' of trade and commerce among the several…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
By the purchase of the stock of the four Philadelphia refineries, with shares of its own stock, the American Sugar Refining Company acquired nearly complete control of the manufacture of refined sugar within the United States. The bill charged that, the contracts under which these purchases were made constituted combinations in restraint of trade, and that in entering into them the defendants combined and conspired to restrain the trade and commerce in refined sugar among the several States aud with foreign nations, contrary to the act of Congress of July 2, 1890.
The relief sought was the…
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