UNITED STATES v. PACKORP, INC.

No. 4343.

246 F.Supp. 963 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. PACKORP, INC., Scott Paper Company, S. D. Warren Company, Menasha Wooden Ware Corporation, American Excelsior Corporation, Hammermill Paper Co., Abitibi Corporation, Gordon B. Bonfield, Edgar W. Habighorst, Roman L. Suess, Charles G. Allen; Arthur F. Koller; James B. Watters; John N. Fields; John Hanson, and A. J. Auden, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

November 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Owens, and Joseph J. O'Malley, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Harold D. Beaton, U. S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiff.

Bodman, Longley, Bogle, Armstrong & Dahling, by Louis F. Dahling, Detroit, Mich., Uhl, Bryant, Wheeler & Upham, by Gordon B. Wheeler, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants Abitibi Corp. and A. J. Auden.

Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, by W. Donald McSweeney and William A. Montgomery, Chicago, Ill., Warner, Norcross & Judd, by Harold S. Sawyer, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants American Excelsior Corp. and Edgar W. Habighorst.

Hillman, Baxter & Hammond, by Douglas W. Hillman, Grand Rapids, Mich., Mortimer E. Graham, Robert J. Kilgore, Erie, Pa., for defendants Hammermill Paper Co. and John Hanson.

Warner, Norcross & Judd, by Harold S. Sawyer and Charles C. Lundstrom, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants Menasha Wooden Ware Corp., Roman L. Suess and James B. Watters.

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, by E. Houston Harsha and John H. Morrison, Chicago, Ill., Varnum, Riddering, Wierengo & Christenson, by F. William Hutchinson, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants Packorp, Inc., Gordon B. Bonfield and Arthur F. Koller.

Law, Fallon, Weathers & Richardson, by Francis X. Fallon, Grand Rapids, Mich., Covington & Burling, by Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C., Norman Heisman, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants Scott Paper Co. and Charles G. Allen.

Nutter, McClennen & Fish, by John R. Hally, Boston, Mass., McCobb & Heaney, by Edward C. McCobb, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants S. D. Warren Co. and John N. Fields.


FOX, District Judge.

This is an action by the United States against the named defendants for violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1. The complaint filed July 11, 1962 charges a conspiracy to restrain price competition and to prevent competitors other than those allegedly involved in the claimed conspiracy from entering the pulpwood market.

The amended complaint filed February 7, 1964, alleges that defendants' paper mills located in...

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