Waters-Pierce Oil Co. v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE THIED SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The 'Waters-Pierce Oil Company is a private corporation incorporated under the laws of Missouri, and its principal offices are situated in St. Louis. It was incorporated to deal in naval stores, and to deal in and compound petroleum and other oils and their products, and to buy and sell the same in Missouri and other States.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS FOR THE THIED SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The 'Waters-Pierce Oil Company is a private corporation incorporated under the laws of Missouri, and its principal offices are situated in St. Louis. It was incorporated to deal in naval stores, and to deal in and compound petroleum and other oils and their products, and to buy and sell the same in Missouri and other States. Its capital stock was originally one hundred thousand dollars, but was subsequently increased to four hundred thousand dollars. On the 6th day of July, 1889, it filed in the office of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Transactions of interstate commerce were withdrawn from the consideration of. the jury and were also excepted from the judgment. The transactions of local commerce, which were held by the state courts, trial and appellate, to be violations of the statutes consisted in contracts with certain merchants by which the plaintiff in error required them to buy oils exclusively from it, “and from no other source;” or buy oils exclusively from it and not to sell to any person handling competing oils; or to buy exclusively from it and to sell at a price fixed by it.
The statutes must be considered in…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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