United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

These are several appeals from judgments of conviction by the District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin for violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (Act of July 2, 1890, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1). Appellants are twelve corporations and five of their officers and employees.1 The indictment was returned on December 22, 1936, against twenty-four corporations engaged in the petroleum business (called “defendant major oil companies”), three trade journals, and fifty-six individuals, principally officers and employees of the defendant corporations.2…