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Legal Citation: 156 U.S. 1 (1895)

Appellant
United States

Appellees
E. C. Knight Company, American Sugar Refining Company, Franklin Sugar Company, Spreckels Sugar Refining Company, Delaware Sugar House

Appellant's Claim
That lower courts erred in finding that the named sugar refining companies had not violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Lawrence Maxwell Jr., U.S. Solicitor General; Richard Olney, U.S. Attorney General

Chief Lawyers for Appellees
John E. Parsons, John G. Johnson

Justices for the Court
Henry Billings Brown, David Josiah Brewer, Stephen Johnson Field, Melville Weston Fuller (writing for the Court), Horace Gray, George Shiras, Jr., Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan I (Howell Edmunds did not participate)