ALLEN INC.. v. CASH REGISTER CO.

No. 592.

322 U.S. 137 (1944)

ALLEN CALCULATORS, INC. v. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 1, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Murray Seasongood, with whom Mr. Frank R. Bruce was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Hugh McD. Ritchey, with whom Messrs. Joseph S. Graydon, Garrard Winston, and Chauncey B. Garver were on the brief, for the National Cash Register Co., appellee. Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge, and Messrs. Charles H. Weston, Elliott H. Moyer and Robert L. Stern submitted for the United States, appellee.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By a decree, entered February 1, 1916, in a suit by the United States against National Cash Register Company, the latter was restrained, pursuant to the antitrust statutes, from acquiring ownership or control of the business or plant of a competitor manufacturing or selling cash registers or other registering devices. The injunction, however, provided that, in case National should desire such acquisition,

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