UNITED STATES v. ATLANTIC COMMISSION CO.

No. 1710.

45 F.Supp. 187 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. ATLANTIC COMMISSION CO., Inc., et al.

District Court, E. D. North Carolina, Wilson Division.

May 14, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Aiken and Harold L. Schilz, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and J. O. Carr, U. S. Atty., of Wilmington, N. C., for the United States.

R. E. Whitehurst, of New Bern, N. C., for S. M. Jones.

L. I. Moore, of New Bern, N. C., for New Bern Oil & Fertilizer Co. and Hugh S. Swan.

L. Bruce Gunter, of Raleigh, N. C., for Farmer's Cooperative Exchange, Inc., and M. G. Mann.

W. A. Lucas, of Wilson, N. C., and George J. Feldman, of Washington, D. C., for Atlantic Commission Co., Inc., and others.

F. E. Kellam, of Norfolk, Va., and Ehringhaus & Ehringhaus, of Raleigh, N. C., for W. T. Phillips and others.

Battle, Winslow & Merrell, of Rocky Mount, N. C., for Thomas P. Thompson and another.

W. R. Ashburn, of Norfolk, Va., and J. Henry LeRoy, of Elizabeth City, N. C., for W. R. Britton and others.

W. R. Ashburn, of Norfolk, Va., and Wade A. Gardner, of Wilson, N. C., for Guy W. Capps.

Rodman & Rodman, of Washington, N. C., for Pamlico Chemical Co. Inc.

Connor & Connor, of Wilson, N. C., and Willcox, Cooke & Willcox, of Norfolk, Va., for Charles F. Burroughs and F. S. Royster Guano Co.

Godfrey Child, of Pocomoke City, Md., for William B. Tilghman, Jr., and others.

Oliver G. Rand, of Wilson, N. C., for Baugh & Sons Co. and G. Allen Ives.

Fred L. Carr, Jr., of Wilson, N. C., for another defendant.


WYCHE, District Judge.

The indictment in the present case was returned by a special Grand Jury for the Eastern District of North Carolina on December 8, 1941. It charges, in the first count, a conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and commerce in potatoes in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1; and, in the second count, a conspiracy to monopolize trade and commerce in potatoes in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A....

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