United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

LA BUY, District Judge.

It is charged in the complaint that the named defendants and class defendants conspired to restrain and monopolize interstate trade, and that, as part of the alleged conspiracy, it was agreed that the individual defendants and class defendants would acquire, hold and perpetuate control of the corporate defendants (1) by establishing Christiana Securities and Delaware Realty as personal holding companies, maintaining voting control of those companies, and utilizing them to acquire a controlling interest in the stock of the du Pont Company; (2) by causing the du Pont…