The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants (1912)

Record Details:

Title:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Date:
1912
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
December 14, 2023
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2 OEIGINAL PETITION. Congress passed July 2, 1890, entitled ^^An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies/^ and this proceeding is instituted to prevent and restrain the hereinafter particularly described agreements, contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of, and restraints upon, interstate and foreign trade in such articles, the attempts to monopolize and the contracts, combinations, and conspiracies to monopolize, and the existing monopolizations of part of trade and commerce among the several States in such commodities. On information and belief, your petitioner alleges and shows : I. Motion Picture Patents Company is a corporation organized under th laws of New Jersey, with its principal offices at 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City. General Film Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, with its principal offices at 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Thomas A. Edison (Inc.) is a New Jersey corporation, the successor to all the rights and privileges of the Edison Manufacturing Company, also a New Jersey corporation. The principal offices of Thomas A. Edison (Inc.) are located at Orange, N. J. Biograph Company is a corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey, with its principal offices in New York City. Essanay Film Manufacturing Company is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, with its principal offices at Chicago, 111. Kalem Company (Inc.) is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, with its principal offices at New York.