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WEEDS, INC., v. UNITED STATES

No. 558.

255 U.S. 109 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 306

65 L.Ed. 537

WEEDS, INC., ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. Harvey D. Hinman, Mr. Thomas B. Kattell and Mr. Charles E. Hughes, Jr., were on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

The Solicitor General for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs in error, having been convicted and sentenced under an indictment containing eight counts, one of which, the sixth, was eliminated at the trial, prosecute this direct writ of error. All the counts charged violations of the fourth section of the Lever Act, the first, a conspiracy under the section to exact and to aid and abet in exacting excessive prices for certain necessaries, that is, articles...

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