U.S. v. SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO.

No. 346.

310 U.S. 150 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO., INC. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 6, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Henry Lewin and Assistant Attorney General Arnold, with whom Solicitor General Jackson and Messrs. Charles H. Weston and Grant W. Kelleher were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. William J. Donovan, with whom Messrs. Ralstone R. Irvine, Herbert H. Thomas, Harry S. Ridgely, Hiram E. Wooster, Louis Mead Treadwell, Goldthwaite H. Dorr, Charles A. Frueauff, Theodore W. Brazeau, Dan Moody, William H. Zwick, James J. Cosgrove, Charles I. Francis, Samuel A. Mitchell, Truman Post Young, Roy T. Osborn, Thomas T. Cooke, J.C. Denton, Rayburn L. Foster, W.P.Z. German, A.F. Molony, Ralph Horween, and Samuel Topliff were on the brief, for respondents in No. 346 and petitioners in No. 347.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondents1 were convicted by a jury,2 23 F.Supp. 937, under an indictment charging violations of § 1 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act,3 26 Stat. 209; 50 Stat. 693. The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed...

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