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District of Georgia, alleging unlawful combination and conspiracy in restraint of interstate and foreign. commerce in turpentine and resin. A demurrer was overruled January 2, 1913. The defendant suspended business on account of financial difficulties in March, 1913, and since then no further action has been taken. "Underwear Case": Atlas Underwear Company v. Cooper Underwear Company. This was a suit in equity in the Federal District Court of Wisconsin for the Southern District to enjoin the circulation by the defendant of threats of infringement suits. The court granted an injunction December 3, 1913 (210 Fed. 347).

"Wall Paper Case": Continental Wall Paper Company v. Voight & Sons Company. This was an action, in the Federal Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio to recover a balance due on account of wall paper sold and delivered to the defendants. Upon demurrer, judgment was entered for the defendants. dismissing the petition. Upon appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, judgment was affirmed January 5, 1906 (148 Fed. 939). Upon appeal to the Supreme Court judgment was affirmed February 1, 1909 (212 U. S. 227).

"Watch Case Suit": U. S. v. Keystone Watch Case Company et al. Petition was filed December 20, 1911, in the Federal Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging unlawful contracts, combinations and conspiracies to monopolize trade in filled watch cases and watches, and praying for a decree ordering the dissolution of the Company and enjoining the defendants from further committing the

acts complained of. A decision in part favourable and in part adverse to the Government's contentions was handed down January 2, 1915 (218 Fed. 502). A demurrer was entered in conformity therewith, from which both the Government and the defendants have appealed to the Supreme Court where the appeal is now pending.

"Wholesale Grocers' Case": U. S. v. Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association. Petition was filed June 9, 1910, in the Federal Circuit Court for the Northern District of Alabama against an alleged combination to regulate prices and control marketing of groceries. Upon consent, a decree was entered perpetually enjoining the association, its officers, and members, from doing any and all of the acts complained of October 17, 1911 (see 207 Fed. 444). On February 10, 1913, petition for rule to show cause why an attachment should not issue for contempt of court for alleged violation of the terms of this decree was filed in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The association and three individual members were adjudged guilty of contempt of court, and on August 4, 1913, fines aggregating $5,500 were imposed.

Wherever any of the authorities above mentioned have been officially reported among the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, or the lower Federal courts, or the various State courts, the reference has been given. Many of the most recent and significant of these authori

ties, however, are either bills of complaint, charges to juries, decrees, or other unpublished proceedings that are not readily accessible anywhere except through the special courtesy of either Government officials or participating counsel. For much of this unpublished material, I am indebted to the Attorney-General of the United States and to various United States attorneys and officials of the Department of Justice.

Some of the more recent books, dealing with the

topics of the preceding chapters and with collateral topics, and with various economic aspects of these topics, have, in response to numerous requests, been enumerated below. No attempt has been made to make the list complete, nor to include the wealth of valuable material that has appeared in numberless newspapers, magazines, and Government publications; and only such books as are readily accessible to the general reader are mentioned:

Trust Laws and Unfair Competition, by Joseph E. Davies, Commissioner of Corporations, Washington, 1915.

Awakening of Business, by Edward N. Hurley, New York, 1916.

The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court by William H. Taft, New York, 1914.

Manual of the Sherman Law, by Everett N. Curtis, New York, 1915.

A Treatise on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, by William W. Thornton, Cincinnati, 1913.

History of the Sherman Law, by Albert H. Walker,

New York, 1910.

The Federal Trade Commission, by John M. Harlan and Lewis W. McCandless, Chicago, 1916.

A Manual of the Federal Trade Commission, by Richard S. Harvey and Ernest W. Bradford, Washington, 1916.

The Law of Unfair Competition (revised edition), by Harry D. Nims, New York, 1917.

The Law of Trademarks, Tradenames, and Unfair Competition (third edition), by James L. Hopkins, Cincinnati, 1916.

Goodwill, Trademarks, and Unfair Trading, by Edward S. Rogers, Chicago, 1914.

Industrial Combinations and Trusts, by William S. Stevens, New York, 1913.

Trusts, Pools and Corporations (revised edition), by William Z. Ripley, Boston, 1916.

Trusts and Competition, by John F. Crowell, Chicago, 1915.

Business Organization and Combination, by Lewis H. Haney, New York, 1913.

The Trust Problem, by E. Dana Durand, Cambridge, 1915.

The Control of Trusts (revised edition), by John B. Clark, and John Maurice Clark, New York, 1912.

Concentration and Control: A Solution of the Trust Problem in the United States, by Charles R. Van Hise, New York, 1912.

Control of the Market: A Legal Solution of the Trust Problem, by Bruce Wyman, New York, 1911.

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