Excerpt from United States of America Vs: Standard Oil Company and Others, Brief on Behalf of Defendants Standard Oil Company and Others

It is alleged that the individuals engaged in the conspiracy acquired during this period by the sale of stock interests in the Standard Oil Company of Ohio interests in the stocks and businesses of many of the concerns previously mentioned, and through these interests and agreements with other refiners controlled in the latter part of the period more than 90 per cent. Of the oil business, and were enabled to do so and crush and limit competition by means of re bates and preferential rates obtained from rail roads, particularly the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central and Hudson River Rail road, with its connection the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, the Erie Railway, with its connection the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, the Jersey Central Railroad the Reading, and the Baltimore and Ohio. (pp. 19.

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