UNITED STATES V. E.C. KNIGHT
156 U.S. 1 (1895)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over a sugar monopoly.
FACTS: D had purchased stock in four Philadelphia sugar refineries. Those purchases along
with its stock it already owned in American Sugar Refining, allowed D to control the
manufacture of sugar within the U.S. The Government took immediate action and charged that
the stock purchases represented restraints on trade and was contrary to an Act of Congress
of July 2, 1890. P charged that defendants had violated the provisions of an Act of Congress
approved July 2, 1890, c. 647, entitled, 'An act to protect trade and commerce against
unlawful restraints and monopolies,' 26 Stat. 209, providing that [e]very contract,
combination in the form of trust, or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade and
commerce among the several states is illegal, and that persons who shall monopolize or shall
attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with other persons to monopolize trade and
commerce among the several states, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The Government sought
to cancel the stock trades and redeliver them along with a request for an injunction against
further violations of the Act. The circuit court held that the facts did not show a
contract, combination, or conspiracy to restrain or monopolize trade or commerce 'among the
several states or with foreign nations,' and dismissed the bill. The cause was taken to the
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the decree affirmed. This appeal was
then prosecuted.
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