BUCKEYE POWDER CO. v. E.I. DuPONT De NEMOURS POWDER CO

No. 7.

248 U.S. 55 (1918)

39 S.Ct. 38

63 L.Ed. 123

BUCKEYE POWDER COMPANY v. E.I. DuPONT De NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Twyman O. Abbott, with whom Mr. Willard U. Taylor was on the briefs, for plaintiff

Mr. William H. Button and Mr. Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., with whom Mr. John P. Laffey was on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action brought by the plaintiff in error to recover triple damages under the Sherman Act, July 2, 1890, c. 647, § 7, 26 Stat. 209, 210. There was a trial that lasted five months, in which the facts were shown at great length, and after a very full and fair charge by the presiding judge the jury found a verdict in favor of the principal defendant, the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Company, on the...

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