UNITED STATES v. BORDEN CO.

No. 31197.

28 F.Supp. 177 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. BORDEN CO. et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

July 13, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Campbell, U. S. Dist. Atty., of Chicago, Ill., Thurman Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Leo F. Tierney, Maurice L. A. Gellis, Christopher Del Sesto, Daniel B. Britt, H. Douglas Weaver, Thomas H. Daly, Geo. P. Alt, and Sheridan Morgan, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Frederic Burnham, Donald F. McPherson, Cecil I. Crouse, Howard Neitzert, and Miles G. Seeley, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Borden Co. and others.

Louis E. Hart, Irving Herriott, and L. Edward Hart, Jr., all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Bowman Dairy Co. and others.

Gann, Secord, Stead & McIntosh, Loy N. McIntosh, and Bernhardt Frank, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Sidney Wanzer & Sons, Inc. and others.

Charles S. Deneen, Roy Massena, and Donald N. Schaffer, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Hunding Dairy Co. and others.

Isidore Fried, Herbert B. Fried, and Bernard A. Stol, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Capitol Dairy Co. and others.

Edward H. Murnane and James A. Harrington, both of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Western United Dairy Co., Inc., United Dairy Co., Western Dairy Co., and others.

Russell J. McCaughey, Fred C. Nonnamaker, Jr., and Packard, Barnes, McCaughey & Schumacher, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Associated Milk Dealers, Inc., and others.

George W. Lennon, W. C. Graves, Martin Burns, Schuyler & Hennessy, and Henry E. Jacobs, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Pure Milk Ass'n and others.

Joseph A. Padway, of Milwaukee, Wis., and David A. Riskind, of Chicago, Ill., for defendants Milk Wagon Drivers Union, Local 753, and others.

Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis, of Chicago, Ill., for Leslie G. Goudie.

Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Ben H. Matthews, and James P. Dillie, all of Chicago, Ill., for Arbitration group—Leland Spencer and W. A. Wentworth.

Thomas Dodd Healy, of Chicago, Ill., for Daniel A. Gilbert.

Charles F. Rathbun, of Chicago, Ill., for Herman N. Bundeson, Paul Krueger and William J. Guerin, of Board of Health.


WOODWARD, District Judge.

This matter comes up on the several demurrers and motions to quash an indictment in four counts, charging fourteen corporations and associations and forty-three individuals with engaging in an unlawful combination and conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce in fluid milk in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1.

The averments of the indictment may be condensed and summarized as follows:

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