D. R. Wilder Manufacturing Co. v. Corn Products Refining Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the construction of. the Federal Anti-Trust Act, and the effect of a profit sharing contract of a corporation and those dealing with it exclusively and the right of the corporation to recover for goods sold, áre stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts, which involve the construction of. the Federal Anti-Trust Act, and the effect of a profit sharing contract of a corporation and those dealing with it exclusively and the right of the corporation to recover for goods sold, áre stated in the opinion. The answer shows defendant in error to be a combination in restraint of interstate trade in violation of the Federal statute; the combination merged into one corporation various'firms *and corporations which previously had been competitors, for the purpose, and with the effect, of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
We refer to the parties, the one as the Manufacturing, and the other as the Refining Company. Sued by the Refining Company in April, 1909, to recover the amount of the price of two lots of glucose or corn syrup which it had bought in January, 1909, and which it had consumed and not paid for, the Manufacturing Company asserted its non-liability on the following grounds which we summarize:(a) Because the Refining Company had no legal existence as it was a combination composed of all the manufacturers of glucose- or corn syrup in the United States, illegally organized with the object of…
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