Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Ass'n, Inc. v. United States. Derrick v. United States

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

The Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association is a corporate co-operative whose 1,500 producer members furnished 80 per cent of the milk distributed to consumers in the Washington metropolitan district during the period pertinent here. Seven distributing corporations accounted for 85.4 per cent of the milk and cream sold at retail in the area.1 2***In 1948 the Association, its secretary-treasurer, Bruce B. Derrick, and the seven distributors were indicted for conspiring to restrain trade in the District of Columbia in violation of § 3 of the Sherman Act,…