Legal Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation
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content: United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900 - 1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0277, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of court records related to the various anti-trust suits brought against the company.  The records include arguments, testimony, briefs, and exhibits from both sides, as well as the opinions of the courts.  Records in this series have been arranged according to trial venue.  Most of the material relates to the suit brought against the company in the District Court of Massachusetts, circa 1911.  Exhibits relating to this case, dating from 1902-1914, primarily deal with infringements of United Shoe patents by other companies.  Additional information relating to anti-trust suits against United Shoe can be found in the newsclippings.