NORTHERN SECURITIES CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 277.

193 U.S. 197 (1904)

NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 14, 1904.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George B. Young for appellants argued and presented in a brief the following summary of the facts.

Mr. John G. Johnson, for appellant, Northern Securities Company, argued.

Mr. Charles W. Bunn for appellant, Northern Pacific Railway Company, argued.

Mr. John W. Griggs for appellant, Northern Securities Company, submitted a brief.

Mr. M.D. Grover for appellant, Great Northern Railway Company, submitted a brief.

Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson and Mr. David Willcox for appellants, Morgan, Bacon and Lamont, submitted a brief.

Mr. Attorney General Knox, with whom Mr. William A. Day, Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States, appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN announced the affirmance of the decree of the Circuit Court, and delivered the following opinion:

This suit was brought by the United States against the Northern Securities Company, a corporation of New Jersey; the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation of Minnesota; the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation of Wisconsin; James J. Hill, a citizen of Minnesota; and William P. Clough, D....

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