The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
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IN" Circuit court ~ the t'Baed states
Tor tho Northern District n california ~.
tered q decfee In tho easa fpcrntiy lnRi 4.
tuirti ~ tho Government against The Ois
Elevator Company and certain other crF
putaiions for violation ~ 'be Federal anti.
trust laws fhs DEGREES grants = pefpettsl
injunction, NJ prayed for In thu bill On,
Joining each and Ill " the defendants FROM
violating any % tho provisions ~ tho Sh"r.
man ahti.trIs, act aud particularly fron
contracting or agreeing together In any
manner either esprersly or impli silly, 40
10 the trade and IN elevators In
the unlsed States.
Tho defendant corporation and their
Respective officers and agents are also
petpetually enjolned from entering into any
agreement OF understanding as 10 the prices
10 lie char gsd for installing elevators or "a
to the territory In which any Of all u them
shall do business. by the terms ~ the
decree the court retains Jurisdiction 81 the
suit TO make any further or additional decree
or 90 modify or enlarge the present decree
from timele time az the equities Of the case
may demand;
The bill Of complaint in this case was
filed In the Circuit Court on the 18th day OF
March, 1909, against the following named
defendants. The Otis Elevator Company.
Electrical Engineering Company. Frazer
Electric Elevator Company, Cahill a Hill
Ele Company, A. j.. McNicoll Elevator
Company. Crane Elevator Company, Stan
dard Elevator 4 Manufacturing Company,
Elton 4 Primo Ele yator Company, Smith
Hill Elevator Company, Whittier Ma
vator Company; Morse; Williams 4 Co.,
McAdafns q Cartwright Elevator Com
pany. Graves Elevator Company,
Plunger Elevator Company. Sprague Ele-
Machine Company, Sulzer yogt Machine
Company. Central Iron Works Company,
Moon Elevator Company. Warner Elevator
Company, NJ. J. ODonnell 4 Co., Gardner
Elevator Company. Houghton Elevator
Company, Geiger, Fiske a Keep. National
Rowntree Manufacturing Company, Moline
Elevator Company, Samuel Burger, NJ. ID.
Baldwin, /. C. Comstock, ID. II. Darrin Conn
pany, Elecktron Manufacturing Company.
1T was alleged in the bill that these de-
PENDANTS made and sold at least 80 per cent.
OF all the elevators used west Of the Rocky
Mountains and charged that they had en-
tered into a conspiracy among themselves
to control and enhance the prices at which
such elevators should be sold and that the
object of suoh conspiracy had been effected
by and through that. In order to still
further destroy competition with respect to
pendent company secured a contract ficti-
tious suits were instituted against such COM
pany by the Otis Elevator Company for in
fringement OF its patents, but that such
suits were really and In fact instituted for
the purpose Of harrassing and i~njuring
such Independent company. The decree
which has been entered affords the govern
.ment all the relief to which it is entitled
under the law