UNITED STATES v. CONTAINER CORPORATION OF AMERICA

No. C-180-G-63.

273 F.Supp. 18 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CONTAINER CORPORATION OF AMERICA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

August 31, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Murdock, U. S. Atty., Greensboro, N. C., Lewis Bernstein, Wharey M. Freeze, Gregory B. Hovendon and Peter J. Adang, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Whitney North Seymour, William J. Manning, and James W. Harbison, Jr., of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, and Ralph M. Stockton, Jr., of Hudson, Ferrell, Petree, Stockton, Stockton & Robinson, Winston-Salem, N. C., for defendant, Container Corp. of America.

Robert P. Buford, Jr., and Joseph C. Carter, Jr., of Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, Va., and Charles F. Blanchard, Raleigh, N. C., for defendant, Albemarle Paper Mfg. Co.

W. P. Sandridge and W. F. Womble, of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, N. C., for defendant, Carolina Container Co.

Helmer R. Johnson and Charles E. Lewis, of Willkie, Farr, Gallagher, Walton & Fitzgibbon, New York City, and W. C. Harris, Jr., of Holding, Harris, Poe & Cheshire, Raleigh, N. C., for defendant, Continental Can Co., Inc.

Howard T. Milman and Robert D. Krumme, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, and Charles T. Hagan, Jr., of Adams, Kleemeier, Hagan & Hannah, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, Crown Zellerbach Corp.

David J. Mays and John W. Edmonds, III, of Tucker, Mays, Moore & Reed, Richmond, Va., and John W. Hardy, of Douglas, Ravenel, Josey & Hardy, Greensboro, N. C., for defendants, Dixie Container Corp. and Dixie Container Corp. of N. C.

Louis A. Highmark, of Barnes, Hickam, Pantzer & Boyd, Indianapolis, Ind., and McNeill Smith, of Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, Inland Container Corp.

Lawrence E. Walsh and Henry L. King, of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City, and Arthur O. Cooke, of Cooke & Cooke, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, International Paper Co.

Ford W. Ekey and Jon M. Sebaly, of Smith & Schnacke, Dayton, Ohio, and Richard L. Wharton of Wharton, Ivey & Wharton, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, The Mead Corp.

B. Warwick Davenport and Robert P. Buford of Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, Va., and Charles F. Blanchard, Raleigh, N. C., for defendant, Miller Container Corp.

Fred E. Fuller and James A. Sprunk, of Fuller, Seney, Henry & Hodge, Toledo, Ohio, and Welch Jordan, of Jordan, Wright, Henson & Nichols, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, Owens-Illinois Glass Co.

Richard A. Whiting and Robert M. Goolrick, of Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., and Thomas W. Blackwell, Jr., of Blackwell, Blackwell, Canady & Eller, Winston-Salem, N. C., for defendant, St. Joe Paper Co.

Horace R. Lamb and H. Richard Wachtel, of LeBoeuf, Lamb & Leiby, New York City, and Norman Block, of Block, Meyland & Lloyd, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, St. Regis Paper Co.

James A. Weller, of Epps, Powell, Weller, Taylor & Miller, Johnson City, Tenn., and D. Newton Farnell, Jr., Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, Tri-State Container Corp.

James R. Withrow, Jr., Edward R. Kenney, and Alfred H. Hoddinott, Jr., of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, and L. P. McLendon and Thornton H. Brooks, of McLendon, Brim, Holderness & Brooks, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, Union Bag-Camp Paper Co.

E. Nobles Lowe and James Dale Thom, New York City, and Armistead W. Sapp, Jr., of Sapp & Sapp, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant, West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.

Daniel C. Smith, Tacoma, Wash., and Fred B. Helms, of Helms, Mulliss, McMillan & Johnston, Charlotte, N. C., for defendant, Weyerhaeuser Co.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

EDWIN M. STANLEY, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff, United States of America, seeks by this civil action to prevent and restrain an alleged violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1). Briefly summarized, the complaint charges that "the defendants have engaged in a combination and conspiracy in unreasonable restraint of * * * interstate trade and commerce in corrugated containers, in the Southeastern United...

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