Download or read book The United States of America, Complainant, V. Northern Securities Company, Northern Pacific Railway Company, Great Northern Railway Company, J.P. Morgan, James J. Hill, and Others, Defendants written by Northern Securities Company and published by . This book was released on 1903* with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This legal controversy is, in one sense, recent, for the particular act complained of is the virtual merger, in November 1901, of two theretofore competing transcontinental lines into a single corporation; but in a broader sense the controversy is much older, and the formation of the Northern Securities Company was but another...attempt to accomplish a purpose which the Supreme Court of the United States had five years before declared unlawful"--P. 5.