FRANKFORT DISTILLERIES v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 2792-2799, 2807, 2808.

144 F.2d 824 (1944)

FRANKFORT DISTILLERIES, Inc., v. UNITED STATES, and nine other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted November 13, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. W. Grant, of Denver, Colo. (Morrison Shafroth and Henry W. Toll, both of Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellants Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Seagram-Distillers Corporation, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., and J. E. Speegle.

Morris Rifkin, of Denver, Colo., on the brief, for appellant J. E. Speegle.

William V. Hodges, of Denver, Colo., (Hodges, Vidal & Goree, of Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellant National Distillers Products Corporation.

D. L. Street, of Louisville, Ky., and Peter Holme, and Robert E. More, both of Denver, Colo., on the brief for appellant Brown Forman Distillers Corporation.

Charles Rosenbaum, of Denver, Colo. (A. H. Stuart, of Detroit, Mich., Newell W. Ellison, of Washington, D. C., Richard S. Goldman, of San Francisco, Cal., and Edward Miller, of Denver, Colo., on the brief), for appellant Hiram Walker, Inc.

Robert S. Marx, of Detroit, Mich. (Ralph T. Heymsfeld, of New York City, George R. Beneman, of Washington, D. C., Ira C. Rothgerber and Rothgerber & Appel, all of Denver, Colo., and Nichols, Wood, Marx & Ginter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for appellant Schenley Distillers Corporation.

George B. Haddock, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Don W. Marshall, Sp. Atty., of Denver,. Colo., Wendell Berge, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Thomas J. Morrissey, U. S. Atty., of Denver, Colo., on the brief), for the United States in Nos. 2792 to 2799.

Gail L. Ireland, Atty. Gen., H. Lawrence Hinkley, Deputy Atty. Gen., Duke W. Dunbar, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., and George K. Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief of amicus curiae in Nos. 2792 to 2799.

Holmes Baldridge, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Wendell Berge, Asst. Atty. Gen., George H. West, U. S. Atty., of Topeka, Kan., and Horace L. Flurry and Earl A. Jinkinson, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for the United States in Nos. 2807 and 2808.

Henry N. Ess, of Kansas City, Mo. (Mitchell T. Neff, of San Francisco, Cal., and Louis R. Gates, of Kansas City, Kan., on the brief), for appellees Safeway Stores, Inc. (Maryland), et al.

Robert S. Marx, of Detroit, Mich., and Thomas M. Lillard, of Topeka, Kan. (Frank E. Wood and Nichols, Wood, Marx & Ginter, all of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Lillard, Eidson, Lewis & Porter, of Topeka, Kan., on the brief), for appellees Kroger Grocery & Baking Company et al.

Before PHILLIPS, BRATTON, HUXMAN, and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted, in all cases except Nos. 2807 and 2808, November 13, 1944. See 65 S.Ct. 132, 133.

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

These are three criminal prosecutions for combining and conspiring, in some counts to restrain interstate trade and commerce, and in others to monopolize such trade and commerce, in violation of the Sherman Act, as amended, 26 Stat. 209, 50 Stat. 693, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 2. The cases were submitted on rehearing to the...

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