The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03
COURT DECREE
PLEASES MOODY
Termination of Elevator
Case Satisfactory to
Government.
Afforded All the Relief
1t Is Entitled To
Under Law.

WASHINGTON. June Attorney
General Moody today. being asked con-
cerning the Significance of the action
Of the defendants in conseatins to a
decree in favor of the Government in
what is known as the case against the
Otis Elevator Company ct al, agsinst
which the Department OF Justice r9-
Gently instituted proceedings for vio-
Iation of the Federal antitrust laws
said:
The Circuit Court of the United
states. for the Northern District of
California yesterday entered q decree
in the case recently Instituted by the
Government against the Otis Elevator
Company and certain other corpora
tions for violation os the Federal anti
trust laws. The decree grants per-
petual injunction as prayed Tor IN ths
bill enioining each and a.! OF the de-
PENDANTS from violating any OF the
provisions of the Sherman antl-truSr
act and particularly from CONTRACTING
or agreeing together in any manner,
either expressly or implied, as TO the
trade and commerce IN elevators III
the United States. The defendant cor
porations and their respective or1cers.
and agents are also peTpetualiy en-
Joined from entering into any SSree.
ment or understanding 2s to the Prlce
to be charged for installing elevators
or as TO the territory in which any or
all of them shall do business By the
terms of the decree the court retains
Jurisdiction of the suit TO make any
further or additional decree or to mod
ify or enlarge the present decree from
time TO time as the equities of the
case may demand.
The bill of complaint in this case
was filed in the Circuit Court on
March s, 1906, against the following
defendants:
The Otis Elevator Company, Elec-
trical Engineering Company, Fraser
Electrical Elevator Company, Cahil &
Hill Elevator Company. A. j. McNiehol
Elevator Company. Crane Elevator
Company, Standard Elevator and
Manufacturing Company. Elton &
Prince Elevator Company. Smith-H
Elevator Company, Whittier Machine
Company, Stokes & Peters Elevator
Company. Morse, Williams Co. Nc
Adams & Cartwright Elevator Com.
pany. Graves Elevator Company.
Elevator Company, Sprague
Elevator Company. Bloomsbury Eleva-
tor and Machine Company and Sulzer-
Vogei Machine Company. Central Iron
Works Company. Moon Elevator CoHf-
pany, Warner Elevator Company. ".
j.
Company. Houghton Elevator Com
pany, Geiger. Fiske & kOOp, National
Electrical Elevator Company, Burdette
& Rowntree Manufacturing Company.
Moline Elevator Company samuel
Burger. W. D. Baldwin, c. c. Comstock,
d. II. Darrin Company ana Elktron
Manufacturing Company.
1T was alleged in the bill that
these defendants made and sold at
least 80 per cent OF all the elevators
used west of the Rocky Mountains,
and it was charged that they had en-
tered into conspiracy among them
selves to control and enhance the
prices at which such elevators should
be sold, and that the object of such
conspiracy had been effected by and
through the Otis Elevator Company
and its officers The bill also charged
that in order to still further destroy
competition with respect to the sale
OF elevators whenever any independ-
ent company secured a contract hcti-
tious suits were instituted against
such company by the Otis Elevator
Company for infringement of it's
patents, but that such suits. were
really and in fact instituted for the
purpose of harassing and injUring such
independent company. The decree
which has been entered affords the
Government all the relief TO which il
is entitled under the law