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FED. TRADE COM. v. WESTERN MEAT CO.

Nos. 96, 213, 231.

272 U.S. 554 (1926)

47 S.Ct. 175

71 L.Ed. 405

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. WESTERN MEAT COMPANY. THATCHER MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. SWIFT & COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 23, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Adrien F. Busick, with whom Messrs. Bayard T. Hainer and James M. Brinson were on the brief, for the petitioner in No. 96 and the respondent in Nos. 213 and 231.

Mr. Edward I. Barry, with whom Messrs. Frank L. Horton, Jeremiah F. Sullivan, and Theo. J. Roche were on the brief, for the respondent in No. 96.

Mr. Herbert Knox Smith for the petitioner in No. 213.

Mr. James M. Sheean, with whom Messrs. Albert H. Veeder, Henry Veeder, and Frank L. Horton were on the brief, for the petitioner in No. 231.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

I

These causes necessitate consideration of the power of the Federal Trade Commission where it finds that one corporation has acquired shares of a competitor contrary to the inhibition of the Clayton Act, approved October 15, 1914, c. 323, 38 Stat. 730, 731. That Act provides —

"SEC. 7. That no corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire...

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