Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — NO RULE FOR MERGER. [ARTICLE]

NO RULE FOR MERGER.

Federal Supreme Court Remands Minnesota Suit. The original merger suit, brought by the State of Minnesota, was sent back to the courts of that State Monday by the United States Supreme Court. The opinion, Written by Justice Haflan and concurred in by all of the other justices, is to the effect that the. lower federal court had no jurisdiction in the matter, and should not have tried the case when-it was taken from the State court by the Northern Securities Company. Taking up the federal law and analyzing its provisions, the decision said: “This is not a criminal proceeding, nor a suit in equity in the name of the United States to restrain violation of the antitrust act, nor a proceeding in the name of the United States for the forfeiture of property, not an action by any person or corporation for the recovery of threefold damages for injury done to business or property by some other person or corporation.” The contention that the case involved proprietary interests in the State was not allowed to influence the opinion.