Brief for the United States (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Brief for the United States
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office. Office of the Public Printer
Volume:
Brief for the United States
Leaf #:
000322
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski",Domitor}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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310 PAKT XVI. properties stock in the new company. The decree entered August 15 adjudges — that said combination and monopoly be forever dissolved, and to the end tliat the business and assets of the International Harvester Co. be separated and divided among at least three substantially equal, separate, distinct, and independent corporations, with wholly separate owners and stockholders, and that the defendants file with the clerk within 90 days a plan for such separation and division for the consideration of this court. With the consent of the Attorney General the above paragraph of the decree was amended on October 3, 1914, to read: that said combination and monopoly be forever dissolved, and to that end the business and assets of the International Harvester Co. be divided in such manner and into such number of parts of separate and distinct ownership as may be necessary to restore competitive conditions and bring about a new situation in harmony with law. Writing the opinion of the court. Circuit Judge Smith said : ^rhe real ([uestion is whether the combination of the companies was illegal in the beginning or became so with the additions subsequently made. * * * No weight is atta(*iied therefore to the means by which the combination was formed