UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES ALKALI EXPORT ASS'N

Civ. No. 24-464.

86 F.Supp. 59 (1949)

UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES ALKALI EXPORT ASS'N, Inc. et al.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

August 12, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. X. McGohey, United States Attorney, New York City, for plaintiff (J. Francis Hayden, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, Francis E. Dugan, Special Attorney, Antitrust Division, New York City, Burton R. Thorman, Special Attorney, Washington, D. C., Roy N. Freed, Special Attorney, Boston, Mass., and Manuel M. Gorman, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, of counsel).

Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York City, for defendant United States Alkali Export Ass'n, Inc. (William Dwight Whitney, and George S. Leonard, New York City, of counsel).

Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey, New York City, for defendant Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (H. Allen Lochner, New York City, of counsel).

Sage, Gray, Todd & Sims, New York City, for defendant Hooker Electrochemical Co. (Inc.), William E. Sims, New York City, of counsel.

Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke & Whiteside, New York City, for defendant Mathieson Alkali Works (Inc.), Ralph D. Ray, and Abel I. Smith, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Kenneth B. Ray, New York City, for defendant Westvaco Chlorine Products Corporation.

Coudert Brothers, New York City, for defendants Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited (London) and Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited (New York), Alexis Coudert, New York City, of counsel.

Oliver & Donnally, New York City, for California Alkali Export Ass'n and West End Chemical Co., Michael F. McCarthy, and Martin A. Meyer, Jr., New York City, of counsel.


S. H. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This is an equitable proceeding brought by the United States under Section 4 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C.A. § 4, to restrain certain practices alleged to be in violation of Section 1 of the same Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1. The complaint was filed in March, 1944, and named as defendants two domestic export associations organized under the Export Trade Act of 1918, Webb-Pomerene Law, 40 Stat. 516, 517, Public...

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