Show AoArNsr Till IRON TRUST I ImPultent Ilelloola toy if U S Circuit Court of Aph Cincinnati Feb HTh United States Circuit court 01 appeals for the slxht elrcult district today decided h rlUm pipe trust ctcae Mr Justice Halan unit Circuit JUdge Taft and Iurnn composed the court Judge Taft dlleml the opinion The suit was begun In the United Stnlse circuit court at Chattanooga b > a bill In equity lied by the attorney general 01 the United State against six castiron pipe companies the Ad distoiu company of Cincinnati Den tits Long Company of Louisville Chattanooga Pipe Work ot Chat tanooga tile South IIUshurg VIVO Work 01 South Pltaburg Inn the Annlstono Pip Work of Annltone IIt find the 10war Harrison com puny 01 lesemr Ala to enjoin them front continuing to do bust under a contract ot ossoclltlon which the bill charges was a violation of the Federal Milltrust act of JS90 because It was In restraint or Interstate trade In cent Iron pipe and an attempted monopoly of the same The circuit court ells intoned the bill and the United State appealed ap1aled By the contract the defendant divided the country Into free and pay terrlton Tree territory embraced em-braced New York Pennsylvania and Virginia and all Elates north Ylrglnla al norh and east of them Pay territory embraced the rest of the United Stairs In free territory ter-ritory the association rates were per settled to 1 pipe at any price they aw Ot All orders received from pay territory haC to lie submitted tn a central cen-tral board which fixed the price and then assigned the Job to the one of the associations which would agree to pay to the other the highest bonus Certain Cer-tain large cities were reserved to particular par-ticular menilx rs slid on orders is colved from them the price ad honl were both fixed by the board Though the agreement of factorials capacity 01 the aolat wan only thirty per cent of the total tonnage capacity of all mill In the country It I was over sixty Per centof the tonnage capacity of the combining mllli ot the territory Ily the custom 01 the tri all eonret wre made to Include delivers by the seller at the home of the buyer The court of npnevls ho1 irst that the Contract 01 the motocclatiot ee If the prices fixed under It were reasonable reason-able and Its only purpose were to pre veni ruinous eomltlion ej clalmOI by defendants was nevertheless void at common law hecnl In rratnt 01 trade and nn attempted monopoly scold sc-old that the Prices Vera not ron able and the purpose was an attempted monopoly third flint the trade restrained strained by the contract of association was the negotiation nnfl sale I of pipe to IH I > delivered Heroes tile state lines from the state of manufacture to the state 01 sale I and flint thlq wa under all the decisions of the Supreme court In tett commerce And fourth tin a cnnclllol from these premises that the contract of Association was a restraint re-straint and burden on Intat core nierte and a violation of the federal antitrust law should he enjoined The court dltngulhe tills Cape from the suglar trust crime on the ground that the rut ton be enjoined I under the Federal trust act In that caw ca-w a contract ot association for the manufacture of sugar and did I not Involve I In-volve ns the contract In this case did I the restraint of sales of merchandise to be delivered across state lines The Judgment of the circuit court of appeals reversed the decree of the circuit cir-cuit court and I otratvtril that court f lnf td 1 i to enter a decree enjoining 1111C six de residents from attimptlnff to do bus nC Under contract of association or team In any way mnlntalnlng the same |