UNITED STATES v. SWIFT & COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 58 C 613.

189 F.Supp. 885 (1960)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. SWIFT & COMPANY, Armour and Company, The Cudahy Packing Company, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 12, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl A. Jinkinson, Willis L. Hotchkiss, Ned Robertson, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

John T. Chadwell, Theodore A. Groenke, James A. Rahl, John W. Thomas, Arthur C. O'Meara, John C. Berghoff, Arthur R. Curtis, Chicago, Ill., for Swift defendants; Snyder, Chadwell, Keck, Kayser & Ruggles, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Weymouth Kirkland, E. Houston Harsha, William R. Jentes, George E. Leonard, Jr., John P. Doyle, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Armour & Co.; Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

E. H. McDermott, Walker Smith, Hamilton Smith, James O. Smith, John H. McDermott, Frank E. Babb, Chicago, Ill., Frederick T. Barrett, Omaha, Neb., for defendants the Cudahy Packing Co. and E. A. Cudahy, Jr.; McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Howard J. Trienens, H. Blair White, Clarence F. Wittenstrom, Jr., Chicago, Ill., amici curiae; Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.


JULIUS J. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The petitioners, defendants in this historic litigation, have sought modification of the antitrust decree entered with their consent forty years ago. The government has vigorously opposed the petitions.

Following extensive discovery proceedings and the disposition of preliminary motions, the parties were afforded the plenary hearing required upon such a petition. Hughes v. United States, 1942, 342 U.S. 353...

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