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40 ORIGINAL PETITION.
protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. '^
2. That the court adjudge the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company, severally and respectively, to be a combination in restraint of interstate and foreign trade and commerce in motion-picture films and other articles relating to the motion-picture art, a restraint, and an attempt to monopolize and a monopolization thereof, and that the court direct a dissolution of each of said combinations.
3. That the court adjudge the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company, severally and respectively, to be an unlawful instrumentality operated and maintained by defendants solely for the purpose of carrying into effect the illegal purposes of said contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of interstate trade and commerce and of said attempts to monopolize, and monopohes.
4. That the court adjudge that the various so-called license agreements described in the petition, entered into between the Motion Picture Patents Company and the 10 Patents Company licensees, and the so-called license agreements between the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company, and the agreements between the General Film Company and the 10 Patents Company licensees, and all other license agreements referred to and described in the petition^ were devised, planned, entered into, and are now being observed and enforced solely for the purpose of enabling the defendants to carry into effect the objects and purposes of said unlawful combination and conspiracy in restraint of said interstate and foreign trade and commerce; that each of said agreements be declared illegal, and be canceled, and that the defendants, and all and each of them, and their officers, agents, servants, and employees, be enjoined and prohibited from