Show 1 NO N STANDING IN lN COURT One recent decision of the United States supreme court Is II of or more than ordinary interest to the public in gen general general general eral and the trusts in particular The title o of the suit l Jt was the Continental Wan Walt Paper company vs 6 Louis Voght k Sen Son and was appealed from Ohio Payment Pa m Dt of a debt of S MI was re resisted re resisted d on the ground that the paper company is Jo a trust In an aR opinion by bT Justice Harlan Kalian It U is held that an admitted admitted ad admitted trust st organized contrary to the Sherman antitrust law Jaw cannot use the court to collect debts debt de a thus sustaining the decision of the court below ins Jus Justices tices Brewer Wait Whito Peckham and aDd Holmes dissented so 0 final lisa judgment was rendered by a bare bar majority of one It was represented by 1 Voght that he lie had purchased over iOiA t worth of or paper on which lie he paid ad O per pr r cent more than he lie would have had to pay if there had been competition It was also claimed that the Continental company had bad been bem organized to conduct the bus business busIness iness mess of the wan wall paper factories of the United States and that aa WI a Jobber in Its products p had been bren com corn compelled compelled polled to sign a strict agreement on the threat that if he did not do de so no paper would be sold to him and that it would be made impossible for him to te toco continue co in business In a demurrer the company compan admitted that thet It was w a trust but still contended that it could proper properly ly Iy collect celle t its debts I After a review of all aft tho the facts In the ease and saying that a judgment in Tavor avor avOl of the company would give ef effect effect feet to agreements constituting the ille illegal illegal Illegal gal combination Justice Harlan con COR concluded eluded We Ve hoW bold that such a Judgment can cannet cannot not net be granted without departing from the statutory rule long established In Inthe Inthe inthe the jurisprudence of both this country t c and England that a court Will trill not lend its aid ald in any an way a to enforce or to realize the tile fruits of an agreement ement which appears to be tainted with Illegality al a though the result of applying that rule iule may ma sometimes be to shield a defend defendant defendant ant who WRO has got something for which as between man and man he ought per perhaps haps ha to pay pa but for which he is un unwilling unwilling unwilling willing to pay T et IA h anA A w u w Ute the precedent pr ent set the trusts win will r have hae havet t to do tie business upon a cash basis or trust to luck lurk In n the collection of their bills It is 15 possible also that many man concerns net not in the tRe trust class dass that tie up the retailer by b agreements to ban han handle bandie bandie die dle only a certain liRe line of goods roods for which the price is fixed for him will wUl find It U hard to collect if ir the matter be betaken betaken betaken taken to the federal courts The old motto tto or of Live and let Jet live In n business has been so 80 o long disregarded that this decision dee lon of the highest court in the land will be heralded as a sign that the grip of the combinations upon UJO the throat of the country Is about to be loosened I enea |