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UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO.

No. 5.

259 U.S. 214 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 496

66 L.Ed. 907

UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward F. McClennen, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. James W. Orr, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.1

Mr. Garrett W. McEnerney and Mr. Joseph P. Blair, with whom Mr. William F. Herrin was on the briefs, for appellees.

Mr. Perry D. Trafford and Mr. James Gore King filed a brief on behalf of the Union (now Central Union) Trust Company of New York, appellee.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

The United States on February 11, 1914, filed its bill in the District Court of the United States for the District of Utah against the Southern Pacific Company, the Central Pacific Railway Company, the Union Trust Company of New York, and the directors and officials of the Southern Pacific Company. The charge of the petition is that the defendants restrain or attempt to...

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