PROCTER & GAMBLE v. UNITED STATES

No. 780.

225 U.S. 282 (1912)

PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION, CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON RAILWAY COMPANY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George H. Warington for appellants.1

Mr. Francis B. James, for appellants in Nos. 773 and 774, argued simultaneously herewith. See p. 302, post.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Denison, with whom Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States:1

Mr. P.J. Farrell for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Mr. Edward Barton for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Company, appellee.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Having three manufacturing plants, one at Ivorydale, Ohio, a second at Port Ivory, New York, and a third at Kansas City, Kansas, in which they carried on the business of refining cottonseed and other oils and of manufacturing soap and other products from grease and oil, the Procter & Gamble Company, to facilitate the...

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