SWIFT & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 181.

276 U.S. 311 (1928)

SWIFT & COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Reargued January 3, 4, 1928.

Decided March 19, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Messrs. Charles A. Douglas, Conrad H. Syme, Henry Veeder, and Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., were on the brief, for Swift & Company et al.

Mr. William C. Breed, with whom Messrs. Sumner Ford and Edward A. Craighill, Jr., were on the brief, for the National Wholesale Grocers Association.

Mr. Edgar Watkins, with whom Mr. Mac Asbill was on the brief, for the American Wholesale Grocers Association at the first hearing only.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether the consent decree entered February 27, 1920, with a view to preventing a long feared monopoly in meat and other food products is void.1

On that day the United States filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in equity, a petition...

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