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Show HIGHEST COURT DECIDES AGAINST ALLEGED TRUST WASIHNGTOX. April 13. The antitrust anti-trust enfi pf t)ie Shawnee Compre company and the Gulf Compress com-pnny com-pnny vs. Anderson, Clavton v Co involving in-volving the question ns'k, whether' the Gulf company is a monopoly nnd therefore there-fore operating in restraint of trade, was decided by the Supreme Cpurt of the I lined States todav against the two companies. The case was instituted bv Anderson iV ot lnvto"' minority stockholders in the Shawnee company, to enioin the' leasing of that company's cotton compress com-press to the Gulf company. The irinl court sustained the lease as valid "but its decision was reversed bv the Oklahoma Okla-homa icrritorial Supreme Court. The aricr court held that the lease hnd been executed in furtherance of a monopolistic monopo-listic dcfiiEii tnimcal to the best interests in-terests of the public and in iinrp.mona-ble iinrp.mona-ble restraint of trnde " Today's opinion was bv Justice Mc-Aenna Mc-Aenna and affirmed the Oklahoma court of highest resort. |