UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & CO.

No. 568.

286 U.S. 106 (1932)

UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant to the Attorney General O'Brian, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, and Messrs. Charles H. Weston and Hammond E. Chaffetz were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Edgar Watkins, with whom Messrs. Mac Asbill and Edgar Watkins, Jr., were on the brief, for the American Wholesale Grocers Assn. et al., appellants.

Mr. Wm. C. Breed, with whom Messrs. Dana T. Ackerly, Sumner Ford, and Edward A. Craighill, Jr., were on the brief, for the National Wholesale Grocers Assn., appellants.

Mr. Frank J. Hogan, with whom Messrs. Paul M. Godehn, Henry Veeder, Charles J. Faulkner, Jr., and Nelson T. Hartson were on the brief, for Swift & Co. et al., appellees.


MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

A decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has modified an earlier decree of the same court which enjoined the continuance of a combination in restraint of trade and commerce.

Separate appeals, one by the United States of America, and the others by associations of wholesale grocers intervening by leave of court, have brought the case here, Judicial...

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