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UNITED STATES v. READING CO.

Nos. 3, 4.

253 U.S. 26 (1920)

UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY ET AL. READING COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargument May 21, 1917.

Reargued November 20, 21, 1917.

Reargument June 10, 1918.

Reargued October 7, 1919.

Decided April 26, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom The Attorney General and Mr. A.F. Myers were on the brief, for the United States.1

Mr. Jackson E. Reynolds, with whom Mr. Charles Heebner and Mr. John G. Johnson were on the brief, for Reading Company, Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company.2

Mr. Robert W. De Forest, with whom Mr. Charles E. Miller was on the brief, for Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.

Mr. Henry S. Drinker, Jr., and Mr. Abraham M. Beitler filed a brief on behalf of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company.

Mr. John J. Beattie filed a brief on behalf of the Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company.

Mr. Wm. Jay Turner filed a brief on behalf of the Lehigh & New England Railroad Company.

Restored to docket for reargument May 21, 1917.

Restored to docket for reargument June 10, 1918.

Mr. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

These are appeals from a decree entered in a suit instituted by the Government to dissolve the intercorporate relations existing between the corporation defendants, for the alleged reason that through such relations they

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