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United States v. E. C. Knight Company, by the United States against E C Knight Company and others, in the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, charging that the defendants had violated the provisions of an act of congress approved July 2, 1890, entitled, 'An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies' (26 Stat 209, c 647), 'providing that every contract, combination in the form of trust, or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce among the several states is illegal, and that persons who shall monopolize or shall attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with other persons to monopolize trade and commerce among the several states, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor' The bill alleged that the defendant the American Sugar Refining Company was incorporated under and by virtue of the laws of New Jersey, whose certificate of incorporation named the places in New Jersey and New York at which its principal business was to be transacted, and several other states in which it proposed to carry on operations, and stated the objects for which said company was formed were 'the purchase, manufacture, refining, and sale of sugar, molasses, and melads, and all lawful business incidental thereto'; that the defendant E C Knight Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania 'for the purpose of importing, manufacturing, refining, and dealing in sugars and molasses' at the city of Philadelphia; that the defendant the Franklin Sugar Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania 'for the purpose of the manufacture of sugar and the purchase of raw material for that purpose' at Philadelphia; that the defendant Spreckels Sugar Refining Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania 'for the purpose of refining sugar, which will involve the buying of the raw material therefor, the selling the manufactured product, and of doing whatever else shall be incidental to the said business of refining,' at the city of Philadelphia; that the defendant the Delaware Sugar House was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania 'for the purpose of the manufacture of sugar and syrups, and preparing the same for market, and the transaction of such work or business as may be necessary or proper for the proper management of the business of manufacture' .
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