Maple Flooring Manufacturers Ass'n v. United States

By bill in equity filed March 5, 1923, the United States asked an injunction restraining the defendants, who are appellants here, from violating § 1 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled, “An Act to Protect Trade and Commerce Against Unlawful Restraints and Monopolies ” (c. 647, 26 Stat, 209), commonly known as the Sherman Act.

The defendants are the Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association, an unincorporated “trade association”; twenty-two corporate defendants, members of the Association, engaged in the business of selling and .shipping maple, beech and birch flooring in interstate…