Show I SUIT filED AGAINST I KANSAS CITY PACKERS I I Alleged to Be Members of Combination Combination tion Fixing the Price of I Food Products Topeka Kans Jan Gen General General eral Jackson today began a suit before Judge True or of the district court of Kan Kansas Kansas sas CIt City Kans against Armour and Swift the packers and their agents In Kansas Kansan The suit Is brought under the I Kansas law which provides a penalty ot of a day for corporations which are members of combinations It Is alleged that Armour Swift are members of the Kansas City Fruit and Produce ex exchange exchange change and are therefore liable The suit stilt Is a civil one on and Attorney General Jackson says that It follows the Indictment or of the packers In Missouri on similar grounds Kansas Kansa City Mo Jan head bead headquarters quartErs of the he Kansas City Fruit and Produce exchange Is In Kansas City Mo but there are six representatives of the concern In Kansas City Kans who are also made defendants In the suit The attorney general charges that a committee of the exchange fixes the prices of poultry eggs butter and ot otIer er farm products In violation or of the Kansas anti antitrust antitrust trust law and that Its members refuse to sell at wholesale to any not In the agree agreement meat ment SImilar proceedings It Is said will be filed In the circuit court or of Jackson county Missouri against the packers and representatives of the exchange who it itIs itis Is alleged are VIolating the Missouri I laws |