Legal Opinion
Besser Manufacturing Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1952No. 230PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The United States brought this civil action under § 4 of the Sherman Act charging appellants and others with conspiring to restrain and monopolize interstate commerce in concrete block-making machinery in violation of §§ 1 and 2 of the Act, and charging appellants with monopolizing and attempting to monopolize the same industry in violation of § 2 of the Act.
The defendants below were the Stearns Manufacturing Company, second largest producer in the country of concrete block-making machines, Besser Manufacturing Company, the country’s dominant producer of such machinery and substantial…
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