Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-01-10 | Page 6 | Supreme Court Affirms the Verdict

COUl AffIRMS VERDICT I INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO MUST PAY PA FINE I It Was Found Guilty In Lower Court I of Having Violated Kaneas Anti AntiTrust AntiTrust AntiTrust Trust Laws i Topeka Kas Jan 9 IThe The Kansas tangas supreme g court In handed down today affirmed affirm d the verdict and trio fino of oC the lie district of Shawnee cOlin coun tj ty t against the UIO International Harvester company file Tho company must pay par a afine i afine fine of 1 on 01 o counts I each faeh count being a violation of the I criminal sections of the Kansas anti antt anttI I rust t laws lawsin jn in the fall all of or lOOt 1900 C G 0 Coleman then attorney a llo Ill 0 general of Kansas be te began gan the criminal action against this company He lIe brought counts against IL It It Each count was for the tho sale of o a v mowing I machine or The sales wore core actually made by Topeka Implement Implement ment meet dealers acting as ia agents of tho tim International 1 Harvester company hen tho caso case was tried of these counts were quashed on ac account account acCOunt count of technicalities t Judge A W V Dana iJ lla of or the district court sustained each mh of o tIm tho other count and amt when tho jury jun brought In a verdict of or guilty guilt against tho the company he ho fined It on each count making a total of or 12 GOO COO The company compan might have been fined finer if IC tho the maximum penalty hail had been heen assessed Tho The chief evidence against the tho In International at the trial was the words of oC President Cyrus McCormick of or the tho company ll to the effect that his com corn company pany panr controlled per leI cent of or Iho ho harvesting machine plants Ilan of the tho country and ho hoped to get set all ot of them The 5 attorneys ob oh objected strenuously to lo this evidence and based appeals on objections hut hILt the supreme court upheld Judge Da Dana Dann na nn Further evidence as ns to 10 the Iho exist existence existence ence of or a trust was based on contracts of the agents Iu Itt Kansas The rho Shawnee court decision In n this case attracted attention nil all over the country at al the tho time and tho the supreme courts stamp of or approval of that lint de do decision damn lalon c Is s It Ii is certain this case will be appealed to the tho su promo premo court of or the tho United States Slates