Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This proceeding was commenced in behalf of the United States, under the so-called anti-trust act of Congress, of July 2, 1890, c. 617, 26 Stat. 209. It was undertaken for the purpose of obtaining an injunction perpetually en joining the six corporations, who were made defendants, and who were engaged in the manufacture, sale and transportation of iron pipe at their respective places of business in the States of their…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This proceeding was commenced in behalf of the United States, under the so-called anti-trust act of Congress, of July 2, 1890, c. 617, 26 Stat. 209. It was undertaken for the purpose of obtaining an injunction perpetually en joining the six corporations, who were made defendants, and who were engaged in the manufacture, sale and transportation of iron pipe at their respective places of business in the States of their resi- . dence, from further acting under or, carrying on the combination alleged in the petition to have been entered into…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The foregoing statement, which has been mainly taken from that preceding the- opinion of Circuit Judge Taft, delivered in this case in the Circuit Court of Appeals, comprises, as we think, all that is essential to the discussion of the questions arising in this case, and we believe the statement to be fully borne out as to the facts, by the evidence set forth in the record.
Assuming, for the purpose of the argument, that the contract in question herein does directly and substantially operate as a restraint upon and as a regulation of interstate commerce, it is yet insisted by the appellants at…
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