American Tobacco Co. v. People's Tobacco Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Action by the People’s Tobacco Company, Limited, against the American Tobacco Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, District Judge.
This is a suit by the People’s Tobacco Company, Limited, against the American Tobacco Company, Augustus Craft, and the Craft Tobacco Company, which was brought under the act of Congress of Tuly 2, 1890, known as the “Sherman Anti-Trust Act” (Act July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3200]). The suit was for damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, by reason of an unlawful agreement on the part of the defendant companies and Augustus Craft, who, it is also alleged, conspired to injure the People’s…
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