Long v. Furst

The defendants in error, Furst '& Thomas, are a copartnership, with their place of business at Freeport, Ill., and engaged in the general line of business of medicine companies which handle their products through local persons who go about the country in wagons and distribute same. Originally, all of these companies had local persons to act as agents and with contracts for restricted territory, and the further agreements to sell their goods at prices fixed by the company. These contracts have been uniformly held to be in violation of the statutes against price-fixing and restraint of trade.…