CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE v. UNITED STATES

No. 98.

246 U.S. 231 (1918)

BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry S. Robbins for appellants.

Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Todd, with whom Mr. Lincoln R. Clark was on the briefs, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

Chicago is the leading grain market in the world. Its Board of Trade is the commercial center through which most of the trading in grain is done. The character of the organization is described in Board of Trade v. Christie Grain & Stock Co., 198 U.S. 236. Its 1600 members include brokers, commission merchants, dealers...

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