CORN PRODUCTS CO. v. COMM'N.

No. 680.

324 U.S. 726 (1945)

CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO. ET AL. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 23, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Parker McCollester, with whom Messrs. George deForest Lord, Frank H. Hall and Samuel A. McCain were on the brief, for petitioners.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Berge, Messrs. Charles H. Weston, Paul A. Freund, Sigmund Timberg, W.T. Kelley and Walter B. Wooden were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners, a parent corporation and its sales subsidiary, use a basing point system of pricing in their sales of glucose. They sell only at delivered prices, computed by adding to a base price at Chicago the published freight tariff from Chicago to the several points of delivery, even though deliveries are in fact made from their factory at Kansas City as well...

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