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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY

No. 59 CR 145.

206 F.Supp. 908 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. AMERICAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Northern Natural Gas Company, Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, Ralph T. McElvenny, John F. Merriam and James F. Oates, Jr., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

July 24, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Turnage, Robert G. Levy, John W. Martin, Jr., Attys., Dept. of Justice, for plaintiff.

William Piel, Jr., and George C. Kern, Jr., Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, Carl S. Lloyd and Robert H. Bork, Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Charles A. Bane, Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Chicago, Ill., for Northern Natural Gas Co. and John F. Merriam.

Kenneth F. Burgess, Stuart S. Ball, Arthur R. Seder, Jr., H. Blair White and Jules M. Perlberg, Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, Chicago, Ill., for American Natural Gas Co. and Ralph T. McElvenny.

Carl McGowan, Roland D. Whitman and David C. Baum, Ross, McGowan, Hardies & O'Keefe, John T. Chadwell, James A. Rahl and James E. Hastings, Snyder, Chadwell, Keck, Kayser & Ruggles, Chicago, Ill., for The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. and John F. Oates, Jr.

WILL, District Judge.

There are two motions presently before the Court in this cause. One is the motion of the individual defendants to dismiss the indictment as to them on the ground that it fails to allege an offense cognizable under sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1 and 2. This motion has been definitively determined by the decision of the Supreme Court in United States v. Wise, 370 U.S. 405, 82 S.Ct...

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