The Legal World Important Lilfgaffon In the prosecution of the American Ice Company in New York State, the Donnelly anti-monopoly act, which had been virtually a dead-letter since its passage, was resorted to, and the jury brought in a verdict resulting in the imposition of a fine of $5,000 on the defendant. The Donnelly act, which has been in force for ten years. is atterned closely after the Sherman act. e higher courts are likely to be called up to interpret the law in view of this conviction.
Judge Leet handed down a decision Novem ber 24 in Montreal, which if sustained by
the higher courts will open the door of the Dominion of Canada to forei insurance companies. He held that t e Canadian insurance act, providing that no unre 'stered
company may write insurance in anada, is invalid in designating the insurance business as a trade, as “the Dominion Parliament has no power to regulate it in the way in which the act in question attempts to do."
of two weeks, beginning on the date of im prisonment. The issues were also brought before the Supreme Court by the appeal of the Bucks Stove & Range Company from the modifications of the original decree. The investigation of the sugar weighing frauds by the Department of Justice in Novem ber developed the fact that man more Government officials were involved t an had been at first su posed. It was also discovered that one of t e most important and long trusted superintendents of the American Sugar Refining Compan, James F. Bender nagel, was involved.
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A verdict of not guilty was returned Decem ber 8, b the jury in the prosecution of thirty two de endants at Boston for alleged attempts to defraud by collusive bidding on contracts for structural steel work for the city of Boston, and for having an alleged monopoly of the structural steel business in Massachusetts and the states adjacent thereto. The trial in the Sn erior Court before Judge Robert 0. Harris sted fifty-four days, and the jury debated nine hours. The counsel for the defense included many leading lights of the Boston bar. The ap 1 of Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison rorn the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia (21 Green Bag 643) came before the Supreme Court of the United States November 29, on a petition for a writ of certiorari. Samuel Gom rs had reviously asserted that IIudge Wrig t, who fbund the appellants gui ty of contempt for violating the injunction, was "biased and unfit to wear the judicial ermine," and the convention of the American Federa tion of Labor at Toronto had protested against the court's "unjudicial and intem perate language." The Federation had also voted to continue the salaries of the men, if they are imprisoned, durin the terms of their im risonment. The ntral Labor Union adopted resolutions at Philadelphia November 14 for a eneral strike by wage workers throughout t e country for a period
Collector William Loeb,
Jr., of the port of New York on November 19 announced the removal of seventy-three employees for corruption or inefficiency. The sugar company has also dropped many of its employees. Several of the cases came to trial before Judge Martin in the United States Circuit Court at New York City, November 29.
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A cartoon which illustrates the po ularity. in many uarters at least. of the Standar Oil decision and o _ the latest developments in the sugar prosecutions.
