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Show GOVERNMENT WINS IN CDALTRUST SUIT DISSOLUTION OF COMBINATION HAS BEEN ORDERLD BY THE SUPREME COURT. Government's Charges of Combination in Restraint of Trade Is Sustained, Bench Being Divided in Opinion. Washington. Announcing its decision de-cision in a part of the long pending anthracite coal trust cases on April 2(i, the supreme court In a four to three opinion sustained a majority of the government's charges of illegal combination against the Heading company, com-pany, a Pennsylvania holding corporation, corpora-tion, and certain of its railroad and coal subsidiaries and ordered their dissolution. Chief Justice White and Associate Justices Holmes and Vande-vanter, Vande-vanter, dissented, while Justices Mi-Reynolds Mi-Reynolds and lirandels took do part. The majority opinion held the holding hold-ing company guilty of violation of the Sherman antitrust act, and reversed federal court decrees rendered in Philadelphia in 1015, refusing to sustain sus-tain the government's charges of monopoly, but directing separation of the Central Railway of New Jersey from its subsidiary coal company, the Lehi & Wilkesbarre Coal company. Dissolution was ordered by the supreme su-preme court of the Reading company, the Philadelphia & Reading Railway company, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron company, the Central Railway Rail-way of New Jersey, and the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal company, maintained through the holding corporation ; so that they would be entirely independent indepen-dent of each other. Disposition of the stock and bonds of the companies held by the Reading company also was directed. |