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U.S. v. WAYNE PUMP CO.

Nos. 81 and 82.

317 U.S. 200 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. WAYNE PUMP CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Arnold, with whom Solicitor General Fahy and Mr. Archibald Cox were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Edward R. Johnston for the Wayne Pump Co. et al.; Mr. James H. Winston for the Gilbert & Barker Mfg. Co. et al.; and Mr. Harold F. McGuire for Veeder-Root, Inc. et al., — appellees. With them on the briefs for appellees were Messrs. Charles L. Byron, Howard Somervell, Louis F. Niezer, Ballard Moore, James M. Carlisle, Arthur S. Lytton, John C. Slade, Bryce L. Hamilton, Barry Gilbert, and George W. Ott.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are companion appeals from orders sustaining demurrers to indictments for violations of the Sherman Act. The indictment in No. 81 charges the defendants, manufacturers of gasoline pumps, a manufacturer of gasoline computing mechanisms and a gasoline pump manufacturing association, and certain of their officers, with conspiracy, extending from 1932 to the date of the indictment, January 31, 1941, to fix the...

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