CHAIN INSTITUTE v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

No. 14821.

246 F.2d 231 (1957)

CHAIN INSTITUTE, Inc.; American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.; The McKay Company; Hodell Chain Company; St. Pierre Chain Corporation; S. G. Taylor Chain Company; Columbus McKinnon Chain Corporation; Campbell Chain Company; Nixdorff-Krein Manufacturing Company; Peerless Chain Company; The John M. Russell Manufacturing Company, Inc.; Turner & Seymour Manufacturing Company; Western Chain Products Company; Dennis A. Merriman; William D. Kirkpatrick; and George J. Campbell, Jr., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

July 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sumner S. Kittelle, New York City (Cann, Lamb, Long & Kittelle, New York City, Frazer F. Hilder, Washington, D. C., Stephen H. Beach, Wilkie, Owen, Farr, Gallagher & Walton, Beekman & Bogue, New York City, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., McAfee, Grossman, Taplin, Hanning, Newcomer & Hazlett, Cleveland, Ohio, Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., Marsh, Day & Calhoun, Bridgeport, Conn., Lawrence, Goldberg, Lawrence & Lewin, Chicago, Ill., Finck & Huber, Buffalo, N. Y., Halfpenny & Hahn, Chicago, Ill., Frederick B. Gerber, York, Pa., and Charles Fay, New York City, on the briefs), for petitioners.

J. B. Truly, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C. (Earl W. Kintner, General Counsel, and Robert B. Dawkins, Asst. General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D. C., on the briefs), for respondent.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and VOGEL, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This case comes to this Court upon petitions to review a cease and desist order of the Federal Trade Commission1 which is based upon its determination that the petitioners had conspired to bring about uniformity in prices for chain and chain products, in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.2

The petitioners are: the principal manufacturers of chain and...

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