In re Pooling Freights’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““(b) A combination of the interests of several otherwise competing parties, such as rival transportation lines, in which all take common ground as regards the public, and distribute the profits of the business among themselves equally, or according to special agreement. In this sense pooling is a system of reconciling conflicting interests, and of obviating ruinous competition, by which the several competing parties or companies throw their revenue into one common fund, which is then divided or redistributed among the members of the pool on a basis of percentages or proportions previously agreed upon or determined by arbitration.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Southern Pac. Co.

2. ““A combination intended by concert of action to make or control changes in market rates.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Southern Pac. Co.