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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN CAN CO.

Nos. 128, 129, 130.

280 U.S. 412 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 177

74 L.Ed. 518

UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN CAN COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. MISSOURI CAN COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. DETROIT CAN COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Hughes, with whom Assistant Attorneys General Willebrandt and Youngquist and Messrs. Millar E. McGilchrist, Claude R. Branch, Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, and Thomas J. Crawford, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the briefs, for the United States.

Mr. Graham Sumner, with whom Messrs. L.A. Welles, John J. Treacy, and Adrian McCalman were on the briefs, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the courts below these causes were heard together and one opinion here will suffice.

Respondent, The American Can Company, owned the entire capital stock of respondents Missouri Can Company and Detroit Can Company. All were incorporated under the laws of New Jersey and had their legal residences and principal offices therein. Their places of business were...

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