Northern Securities Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL • FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. ' The pleadings in this action and the decree of the Circuit Court are as follows: PETITION.1 To the judges of the Circuit Court Of the United States for the District of Minnesota: Now comes the United States'of America, by Milton D. Purdy, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, acting under direction of the Attorney-General of the United States, and brings this its…
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APPEAL • FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA. ' The pleadings in this action and the decree of the Circuit Court are as follows: PETITION.1 To the judges of the Circuit Court Of the United States for the District of Minnesota: Now comes the United States'of America, by Milton D. Purdy, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, acting under direction of the Attorney-General of the United States, and brings this its proceeding by way of petition against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation organized and'existing under the laws of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
announced the affirmance of the decree of the Circuit Court, and delivered the following opinion:
This suit was brought by the United States against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation of New Jersey; the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation of' Minnesota ; the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation of Wisconsin; James J. Hill, a citizen of Minnesota ;1 and William P. Clough, D. Willis James, John S. Kennedy, J. Pierpont Morgan, Robert Bacon, George F. Baker and Daniel S. Lamiont, citizens of New York.
Its general object was to enforce,'as against the defendants, the…
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