Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
The original county seat of Grant County, Maysville is an unincorporated community on North Fork Lunice Creek in Grant County, West Virginia, USA. The community lies at the eastern approach of Mays Gap in Knobly Mountain along West Virginia Route 42.