Kosciusko Oil Mill & Fertilizer Co. v. Wilson Cotton Oil Co.

Citations

• 90 Miss. 551
• 43 So. 435

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and Combines. Contracts. Laws 1900, ch. 88, p. 125.</p> <p>A contract between two cotton seed oil manufacturers is invalid,where it purports to bind one of them, in consideration of the withdrawal by the other of an agent for the purchase of cotton seed from designated territory, to protect the other from liability to the withdrawn agent and furnish an agreed quantity of seed during the season at a named price, under Laws 1900, ch. 88, p. 125, defining a trust or combine to be, among other things, a combination to hinder competition in the purchase of a commodity, and making illegal every contract relative to the business of a trust or combine.</p>