United States v. Standard Oil Co.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner brought this suit to enjoin alleged violations of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act (15 USCA §§ 1, 2). Defendants are grouped into two classes, one called primary defendants (the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Texas Company, the Standard Oil Company of .New Jersey, and Gasoline Products Company) and the other, described as secondary defendants, included forty-six corporations and one individual.

Two defendants, Joseph H. Adams and M. W. Kellogg Company, were later made parties defendant. As to Adams, petitioner sought the cancellation of certain patents…