United States v. Trenton Potteries Co.

Respondents, twenty individuals and twenty-three corporations, were convicted in the district court for south ern New York of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, Act of July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209. The indictment was in two counts. The first charged a combination to fix and maintain uniform prices for the sale of sanitary pottery, in restraint of interstate commerce; the second, a combination to restrain interstate commerce by limiting sales of pottery to a special group known to respondents as “ legitimate jobbers.” On appeal, the court of appeals for the second circuit reversed the…