AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 9137-9139.

147 F.2d 93 (1944)

AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. et al. v. SAME. R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. et al. v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted March 26, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 9137:

Geo. W. Whiteside, of New York City, and Floyd Williams, of Cincinnati, Ohio (Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke & Whiteside, of New York City, Hunt, Bush & Lisle, of Lexington, Ky., and George W. Whiteside and Ralph D. Ray, both of New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

No. 9138:

Bethuel M. Webster, of New York City (Bethuel M. Webster and Charles Dickerman Williams, both of New York City, J. Craig Bradley and Victor A. Bradley, both of Georgetown, Ky., and Charles F. Wheaton, of New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

No. 9139:

B. S. Womble, of Winston-Salem, N. C., and H. F. McGuire, of New York City (Frederick H. Wood and Harold F. McGuire, both of New York City, B. S. Womble, of Winston-Salem, Thomas T. Cooke, of New York City, Richard C. Stoll, of Lexington, Ky., and L. P. McLendon, of Greensboro, N. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Herbert Borkland and Milton A. Kallis, both of Washington, D. C. (Wendell Berge, Herbert Borkland, Carson Glass, Edward S. Stimson, and Margaret H. Brass, all of Washington, D. C., and John T. Metcalf, of Lexington, Ky., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, HAMILTON, and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted March 26, 1945. See 65 S.Ct. 864.

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

The American Tobacco Company, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, together with certain of their officials and a subsidiary of one of the companies, were convicted by a jury, in the district court, on counts of conspiracy in restraint of trade, attempt to monopolize, conspiracy to monopolize, and monopolizing in the tobacco industry...

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