Nelson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. These writs of error submit for review a judgment in contempt entered in the case of United States v. General Paper Company, described in Alexander v. United States, post, p. 117. The judgment was based upon the disobedience by the plaintiffs in error to orders of the court requiring them to answer certain questions and to produce certain books, documents and papers in their examination before the…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. These writs of error submit for review a judgment in contempt entered in the case of United States v. General Paper Company, described in Alexander v. United States, post, p. 117. The judgment was based upon the disobedience by the plaintiffs in error to orders of the court requiring them to answer certain questions and to produce certain books, documents and papers in their examination before the special examiner in pursuance to a subpoena duces tecum duly issued and served. The orders requiring the plaintiffs to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Plaintiffs in error urge three main contentions, which we will consider in their order.
I. That the evidence, documentary and oral, which the witnesses were, required to produce, was not shown to be material to plaintiff’s case.
1. There are three answers to this contention. (1) The evidence is clearly material. The charge of the bill is that the defendant manufacturing corporations entered into a conspiracy and combination in violation of the act of July 2, 1890, to suppress competition between themselves, and that they accomplished this purpose by organizing the General Paper Compány, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Blease v. GarlingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
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