Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This is a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court dismissing, on demurrer, the bill of complaint for want of equity. 164 Fed.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. This is a writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court dismissing, on demurrer, the bill of complaint for want of equity. 164 Fed. Rep. 803; 90 C. C. A. 579. The complainant Dr. Miles Medical Company, an Indiana corporation, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of proprietary medicines, prepared by means of secret methods and formulas and identified by distinctive packages, labels and trade-marks. It has established an extensive…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The complainant, a manufacturer of proprietary medicines which are prepared in accordance with secret formulas, presents by its bill a system, carefully devised, by which it seeks to maintain certain prices fixed by it for all the sales of its products both at wholesale and retail. Its purpose is to establish minimum prices at which sales shall be made by its vendees and by all subsequent purchasers who traffic in its remedies. Its plan is thus to govern directly -the entire trade in the medicines it manufactures, embracing interstate commerce as well as commerce within the States…
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