AETNA PORTLAND CEMENT CO. v. FEDERAL TRADE COM'N

Nos. 8360, 8361, 8371-8373, 8386, 8389, 8393, 8399, 8402, 8409, 8410.

157 F.2d 533 (1946)

AETNA PORTLAND CEMENT CO. et al. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. CEMENT INSTITUTE et al. v. SAME and ten other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

September 20, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donovan Leisure Newton Lumbard & Irvine and William J. Donovan, George S. Leisure, James R. Withrow, Jr., Ira C. Werle, and Henry Herrick Bond, all of New York City, William G. Compton, of Keeseville, N. Y., and Dorr Casto and Breck P. McAllister, Thomas J. McFadden and Francis A. Brick, all of New York City, George Ragland, Jr., of Chicago, Ill., Edward K. Hanlon, of New York City (Murray T. Quigg, Joseph A. Seeley, and Francis X. Walsh, all of New York City, of counsel), for petitioners Aetna Portland Cement Co., Cement Institute and Blaine S. Smith et al.

Edward A. Zimmerman, Harold W. Norman, William R. Engelhardt, and Zimmerman and Norman, all of Chicago, Ill., and Roscoe Pound, of Cambridge, Mass., for petitioner Marquette Cement Mfg. Co.

Walter C. Fox, Jr., Marshall P. Madison, Herbert W. Clark, and Chickering & Gregory, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark, all of San Francisco, Cal., A. W. Witherspoon, and Witherspoon, Witherspoon & Kelley, all of Spokane, Wash., and Chaffee E. Hall, Robert H. Gerdes, and Earl & Hall & Gerdes, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Overton, Lyman, Plumb, Prince & Vermille, and Edward D. Lyman, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Calaveras Cement Co. et al.

Charles Wright, Jr., and Laurence A. Masselink, both of Detroit, Mich., for petitioner Huron Portland Cement Co.

Francis A. Le Sourd and Little, Leader, Le Sourd & Palmer, all of Seattle, Wash., for petitioner Superior Portland Cement, Inc.

S. Harold Shefelman and Weter, Roberts & Shefelman, all of Seattle, Wash., for petitioner Northwestern Portland Cement Co.

Louis W. Myers and Pierce Works, both of Los Angeles, Cal. (O'Melveny & Myers, and Lauren M. Wright, of Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for petitioner Riverside Cement Co.

John H. Hershberger, Elbridge H. Condee and Knapp, Cushing, Hershberger and Stevenson, all of Chicago, Ill., Nathan L. Miller, of New York City, and Roger M. Blough, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for petitioner Universal Atlas Cement Co.

Robert B. Murphey and Alex W. Davis, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner California Portland Cement Co.

William D. Burnett, of Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Monolith Portland Cement Co. et al.

William T. Kelley, Chief Counsel, and Walter B. Wooden and Everette MacIntyre, Assts. Chief Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before EVANS, MAJOR, and KERNER, Circuit Judges.


MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

These are petitions, joint and several, filed on behalf of the Cement Institute, 74 cement producers and 23 individuals, officers and agents of the Institute, for review of and to set aside or modify an order to cease and desist issued by the Federal Trade Commission July 17, 1943, against the petitioners (respondents before the Commission and referred to in this opinion as such).

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