UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & CO.

No. 9513.

46 F.Supp. 848 (1942)

UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & CO. et al.

District Court, D. Colorado, at Denver.

September 8, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Washington, D. C., and Thomas J. Morrissey, U. S. Atty., James McI. Henderson, and George B. Haddock, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Sheridan Morgan, E. Compton Timberlake, and Joseph J. Cella, Jr., Sp. Attys., all of Denver, Colo., for the United States.

Van Cise & Robinson, of Denver, Colo., for Swift & Co., John Holmes, Paul C. Smith, and S. M. Weir.

R. F. Feagens, of Chicago, Ill., and John R. Coen, of Denver, Colo., for Armour & Co., George A. Eastwood, Walter A. Netsch, and Thomas J. Tynan.

Robert G. Bosworth and C. C. Dawson, Jr., both of Denver, Colo., for Denver Union Stock Yard Co., J. A. Shoemaker, and L. M. Pexton.

Silverstein & Silverstein, of Denver, Colo., for Denver Live Stock Exchange, Denver Sub-Committee of the Joint Marketing Improvement Committee, Associated Live Stock Commission Firms, A. A. Blakley Live Stock Commission Company, Hinie Klecker, Denver Live Stock Commission Company, Drinkard & Emmert, Inc., Mike Hayes, A. A. Blakley, Louis J. Reed, Milton M. Mann, Andrew K. Miller, Russell Wilkins, J. J. Drinkard, Charles G. Smith, Ralph B. Herrick, Ralph S. Blakley, J. D. McKee, and William H. Hilbert.

Grant, Shafroth & Toll, of Denver, Colo., for Cudahy Packing Co., G. E. Robertson, and G. R. Clark.


SYMES, District Judge.

I have paid unusual attention to the arguments of counsel, engaging in considerable colloquy with them in an attempt to find out the basic issues of the case, to see if I could decide the demurrers and motions at the conclusion of the argument. I also read last night a good many of the authorities cited in the briefs, and have reached certain definite conclusions as to the law.

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