RAILWAY COMBINE CASE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 7

RAILWAY COMBINE CASE.

DISSOLUTION ORDERED. By Teleeraph—JPress Assooiation-Oopyrieht .Washington, Deoember 2. The Supreme Court orders the dissolution of the merger of the Union Pacifio and Southern Pacific Railways. The suit started in 1907. The late Mr. E. H. Harriman was the principal defendant involved. Mr. Haniman's interests in the Salt Lake and Santa Fo Railroads have been declared illegal.

A suit was filed at Salt Lake City on February 2, 1908, to prohibit the continued control of the Southern Pacifio Railway by the Union Pacifio Railway. The charge was one of conspiracy to form a combination in violation of the Anti-Trust Law.

Judjje Adams, in delivering judgment in the Circuit Court on June 26, 1911, found that- the suppression of comuetition by the Union Pacific arid Soutliern Pacifio was 60 infinitesimal as to be negligible in so far as violation of the Anti-Trust Law was concerned. No attempt, lind been jmado to secure the control of other', lines which would have helped to establish, a monopoly;.6f traffic, in-,the.part of the country concerned, and also in the fact that the Union Pacifio and Southern Pacific had continued to run separate organisations competing as before, with no Increase in goods rates and no. complaints from slippers. Judge Hook, who dissented from the views of his brother Judges, declared that under the tests laid down in tho majority opinion the Union Pacific probably 1 could have lawfully purchased the control of all the gTeat railway systems of the United States.