United States v. Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

OPINION AND ORDER

The instant matter is before this Court on a motion by the defendants to compel answers to interrogatories propounded by them to the plaintiff, the United States of America.

This is a civil antitrust suit which was commenced on December 24, 1964. 1 The suit arose as a result of an extended investigation by the Department of Justice of the defendant corporations and others, relative to the sale and distribution of chlorine, soda ash and caustic soda. That investigation began some four and a half years ago, and during that period two grand juries…