New Britain herald., 1926-11-23
FIXING 0F PRICES UPHELD BY RULING OF SUPREME COURT General Electric Co. Entitled to Set Rates Where Patents
 Are Held
OTHER IMPORTANT CASES
 ARE DECIDED BY JURISTS

AE DEUlDEU .bI JUklNlN Disposal of Seized Rum Cars and
 Boats Settled-Trade Commission Cannot CurtaiI Purchases-Chi-
 cago Antitrust Action Upheld
 Mass. Daylight Saving Law Ap-
 peal Is Turned Down Again.
 Washington, Nov. 23 P-The fix ing of sales prices by corporations holding patents on their products was upheld today by the supreme court in the General Electric case.
 Confirming the decision of the district court for northern Ohio, the supreme court held that the General Electric had the right to stipulate the price at which the Westinghouse company must sell the patented lamp which 1t makes under license from the General Electric.
 Daylight Saving Law
 The appeal questioning the valid ity Of the Massachusetts daylight saying law was turned down.
 The lower courts were sustained in refusing to enjoin enforcement of the law.
 Justice McReynolds in a separate opinion, held that the case should not even have been considered, but l should have been dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
 The Massachusetts State Grange, the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- | gineers and others had challenged the law as an invalid exercise of authority which rested exclusively in the federal government,
 They asserted that the statute caused a loss of 20,000,000 annual ly to agriculture through depreci- alton of farm lands and sS,000,000 ! through the loss of crops. Conflscated Rum Vehicles
 Deciding the celebrated Ray of Block Island case from Rhode Island, the court held today that | boats and automobiles seized by state prohibition authorities can le- gally be turned over to the federal government when the state in ques- ton has no confiscation law of its own.
 The decision uphold the right of tn, Providence police to turn over to federal prohibition agents the motorboat Ray of Block Island, which they had seized with liquor aboard. The legality of that course had been questioned because the federal officers had not themselves detected a violation of the law.
 The court held that federal pro- hibition officers can at all times take such vehicles and hold them for forfeiture whenever the evid- ence produced by the state officers is sufficient to get conviction un- der the prohibition law.
 Trade Commission Loses
 The federal trade commission lost its main contention today in a fight to curtail the purchase of additional packing plans by Swift and company in Alabama and Georgia.
 The decision was hailed as a vic tory for those manufacturers and others who have been vigorously dis putting the claim of the commission that it had authority to prevent them from acquiring properties of concerns engaged in the same line of business when the commission con- sidered such acquisition would re- strict competition.
 Other Rights Involved
 Involved in the decision also were the rights of the Thatcher Manufac- turing company to sell the Essex and other plants manufacturing milk bot ties in New York state and the West ern Meat company to dispose of the plant of the Nevada Packing con- pany.
 The court ruled, however, that the Western Meat company must dis pose of the Nevada plant under the commissions order because it was obtained while the Western Meat company had stock control of the Nevada company. The lower courts order, which had set aside the con- missions order. was reversed.
 In the ott 1r two cases where the properties were purchased without any stock interest in the companies thecourt sustained thepurchase and reversed the lower courts.
 Justice Houmes, Brandeis and Stone dissented, cont onding that the commission had the authority to compel corporations to dispose of the physical property of competitors obtained by purchase.
 Antitrust Law Violated
 The United States won iA the su- preme court in it's prosecution of manufacturers, contractors and union carpenters at Chicago on charges of criminally violating the | antitrust law with restraining inter- state commerce in mill work.
 Cannot Mix Statutes,
 The federal government must not mix it's liquor statutes when it un- dertakes to seize an automobile for illegal transportation of stimulants
 Thus in effect the supreme court today answered question pro- pounded by the court of appeals in a case from Washington state. The 1 highest tribunal said that once q confiscation case in begun under the | prohibition laws it must therefore be prosecuted under that statute and |