In the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Eastern Judicial District of Missouri. United States of America, Petitioner, v. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey et al., Defendants. Brief of Facts and Arguments for Petitioner. Volume I and Volume 2

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. Hardcover. VG, clean and tight but with general shelf wear to covers.. Both volumes: Original heather grey wraps with black lettering, bound into tan cloth/boards with black lettering on spine, for the Wilmington Institute. Vol. I: 533 pp. with 8 folding documents; no illustrations. Vol. 2: 543 pp. with 9 folding graphs; no illustrations. The trial based on the premise that John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, and Henry M. Flagler "conceived the purpose of controlling the petroleum trade, both domestic and export, and obtaining a monopoly thereof [and] entered into a conspiracy which from time to time took the form of various combinations..." Monopolies, secret rates, price-cutting, etc. Some things never change! (Inventory #: 150134)