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ETHYL GASOLINE CORP. v. U.S.

No. 536.

309 U.S. 436 (1940)

ETHYL GASOLINE CORPORATION ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 25, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Dean G. Acheson, with whom Mr. H. Thomas Austern was on the brief, for appellants.

Assistant Attorney General Arnold, with whom Solicitor General Biddle and Messrs. Hugh B. Cox, James C. Wilson, John Henry Lewin, and Samuel E. Darby, Jr. were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Government brought this suit in the District Court for Southern New York, to restrain appellant, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and the other appellants, who are its officers, from granting licenses, under patents controlled by it, to jobbers to sell and distribute lead-treated motor fuel, and from enforcing

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