Steele v. United Fruit Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
In Equity. Bill by Frederick M. Steele against the United Fruit Company and others. On exceptions to the report of the master.
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, District Judge.
On December 3, 1909, Frederick M. Steele, a stockholder of the Bluefields Steamship Company, filed his bill against the United Fruit Company, against Andrew W. Preston, Minor C. Keith, and Bradley W. Palmer, its president, vice president, and secretary, respectively, against Crawford H. Ellis, its agent in New Orleans, against the president and other officers of the Blue-fields Steamship Company, and against Charles and Jacob Wein-berger. The bill is voluminous, and sets up generally that the United Fruit Company is an unlawful combination; that, having acquired the…
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