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Show LEASES UNDER FIRE IN GOVERNMENT SUIT Brief Seeks Dissolution of United Shoe Machinery Company and Subsidiaries. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Dissolution Dissolu-tion of the United Shoe Machinery company and its subsidiaries on the ground that they are a combination in restraint of trade and injunctions against continuing the "tying leases" under which machinery is rented to shoe manufacturers are aslied in a brief filed today in the supreme court by the government. gov-ernment. The case will be reargued-January. reargued-January. 7. Decisions in the motion picture patents pat-ents case as well as a number of others handed down since the machinery case was instituted are cited by the government govern-ment in an effort to demonstrated the invalidity of the "tying leases." "If the law does not permit the Motion Mo-tion Picture Patents company to tie to--gether a projecting machine and the , film projected by the machiue," says the brief, "it is too plain for argument : that the law does not permit the defendants de-fendants to impose ' limitations upon the use' of a patented machine which tie to it, other machines whose only relation to it is that they operate at the different stages of its manufacture upon the same shoe." |