212 U.S. 563
Docket No. 238.
Docket No. 239.
Docket No. 240.
Full caption · 3 consolidated cases
Supreme Court of the United States
January 4, 1909.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1909-01-04
2 counsel of record
Relies on Johnson v. Tennessee · Spokane Valley Land & Water Co. v. Madson
Cited in Bouvier (1914)’s definition of “Rebate”
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1909-01-04
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1993
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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Messrs. F. S. Winston, Robert Mather, John Barton Payne, S. H. Strawn, Ralph M. Shaw, and Blackburn Esterline for petitioners.
The Attorney General and the Solicitor General for respondent.
Judgments affirmed by a divided court, and causes remanded to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.