State v. McClellan

The state appeals from a judgment which sustained a motion to *40quash the indictment against the defendant. The charge is that the defendant “did unlawfully, attempt to monopolize a certain part of the trade and commerce within the limits of this state, to wit, the laundry business in the city of New Orleans.”

There are two acts of the Legislature (Acts 86 of 1890 and Act 11 of the Extra Session of 1915) whose purpose was to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints, combinations, conspiracies, and monopolies. One of the grounds of the motion to quash is that the charge against the…