Shawnee Compress Co. v. Anderson

Citations

• 209 U.S. 423
• 28 S. Ct. 572
• 52 L. Ed. 865
• 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1696

Syllabus

<p>Where the Supreme Court of the Territory of Oklahoma reverses the judgment of the trial court, the reviewing power of this court is limited to determining whether there was evidence supporting the findings and whether the facts found were adequate to sustain the legal conclusions.</p> <p>■In this case, the Supreme Court of the Territory having found that a lease, being made to further an unlawful enterprise, was void as an unreasonable 'restraint of trade and as against public policy, this court sustains the judgment, there being proof supporting the conclusions to the effect that the lessor company agreed to go out of the field of competition, not to enter that field again, and to render every assistance to prevent others from entering it — other acts in aid of a scheme of monopoly also being proved.</p> <p>It is not necessary to determine whether the Supreme Court of the Territory based its judgment holding such a lease void, on the common law, on the Sherman law, or on the statutes of the Territory; the restraint placed upon the lessor was greater than the protection of the lessee required.</p>