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Tobacco Trust Wins Court Case

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 47.

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Tobacco Trust Wins Court Case

The tobacco trust has won its case in the United States Court of Appeals. The plaintiffs held that the trust had violated the interstate commerce law in refusing to sell to them; but the court held that as the trust was dealing in an article which was not a prime necessity, as corn or meat, it had a right to refuse to sell its goods at any price.