United States v. Lehigh Valley R.

Citations

• 225 F. 399
• 1914 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1264

Syllabus

<p>Monopolies @=>16—Cakbiioks Owning Coal Mines — Regulation —- Interstate Coittiisiio»—“Dissociation oe Interest.”</p> <p>Where a railroad company has acquired about 13 per cent, of contiguous coal mining lands, the acreage of whicli. represents less than 27 per cent, of the coal lands naturally tributary to it, and carries about 18 per cent, of all the coal transported, of which percentage four-fifths comes from mines controlled by a company in turn controlled by the carrier, but where there is an honest “dissociation of interests” between coal owner and coal carrier, which is merely the lawful conduct of honest men, and where the carrier does not own stock in any company selling coal beyond the limits of the state wherein the composite business of owning, mining, transporting, and selling coal is legal, there is no monopoly of interstate commerce.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Monopolies, Cent. Dig. § 12; Dec. Dig. @=16.]</p> <p>other cases see samo topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>