Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and brief in support thereof (1916)

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21 Exhibit B. 61 62 Dyor in his opinion in United iStates vs. United Slioc Machinery Co., 227 Fed., 507, is as follows: "Where the concern makino these contracts is already great and powerful, such as the United Shoe Machinery Company, the American Tobacco Company, and the General Film Company, the exclusive or 'tying' contract made with local dealers becomes one of the greatest agencies and instrumentalities of monopoly ever devised by the brain of man. It completely shuts out competitors, not only from trade in which they are engaged already, but from the opportunities to build up trade in any community where these great and pow^erful conditions are appearing under this system and practice." Judge Sessions has held in the case of Elliott Machine Co. vs. Center, 227 Fed., 126, that this act applies to contracts made before the passage of the act, and w^e think his opinion justified by decisions of the Supreme Court on which he relied. Louisville d Nashville Railroad Co. vs. Mottley, 219 U. 63 S., 167; Armour Packing Co. vs. United States, 209 U. S., 56; Philadelphia, Baltimore cG Washington R. R. vs. Schubert, 221 U. S., 603. In the case of United States vs. United Shoe Machinery Company, 227 Fed., 507, Judge Dyer reached the same conclusion in regard to the Clayton Act. Inasimuch as the contract with the Precision Machine Company involved and restrained interstate commerce, it makes no difference that the particular act of infringement occurred wdthin the State