Anderson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This suit is somewhat similar to the Hopkins suit, just decided, and was brought by the United States against the defendants named, who were citizens and' residents of the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri and members of a voluntary unincorporated association known and designated as the Traders’ Live Stock Exchange, the suit being brought for the purpose of obtaining a decree dissolving the…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This suit is somewhat similar to the Hopkins suit, just decided, and was brought by the United States against the defendants named, who were citizens and' residents of the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri and members of a voluntary unincorporated association known and designated as the Traders’ Live Stock Exchange, the suit being brought for the purpose of obtaining a decree dissolving the exchange and enjoining the members thereof from entering into or continuing any sort of combination to deprive any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
There is really no dispute in regard to the facts in the case. Although the bill contains various allegations in regard to conspiracies, agreements and combinations in restraint of trade and in violation of the Federal statute, yet there is no evidence of any act on the part of the defendants preventing access to the yards or preventing purchases and sales of cattle by any one, other than as such sales may be prevented by the mere refusal on the part of the defendants as “ yard traders ” to do business with those who are also yard traders, but are not members of the exchange, or with…
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