Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1909 — TAFT QUOTED IN OIL CASE. [ARTICLE]

TAFT QUOTED IN OIL CASE.

Decision as Judge Used In Government’s Behalf Against the Standards! St Louis. St. Louis.—For the first time in the courts of this country, a president of the United States was quoted Monday as a prevailing legal authority during the close of Special United States Attorney General Frank B. Kellogg's argument in the United States circuit court in the government’s case to dissolve the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, as a violator of the Sherman act. ' Mr. Kellogg read at length from • decision rendered by Taft in the Addyston pipe case, when a judge in Cincinnati., The issue in the case involved was an alleged restraint, of trade. - t