
    No. 837.
    No. 838.
    No. 840.
    American Tobacco Co. et al. v. United States; Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. et al. v. United States; and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. et al. v. United States.
    March 26, 1945.
    
      Messrs. George W. Whiteside and Milton Handler for petitioners in No. 837.
    
      Messrs. Bethuel M. Webster and Francis H. Horan for petitioners in No. 838.
    
      Messrs. Harold F. McGuire, B. S. Womble, Thomas Turner Cooke and Richard C. Stoll for petitioners in No. 840.
    
      Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge and Mr. Robert L. Stern for the United States.
   Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted limited to the question whether actual exclusion of competitors is necessary to the crime of monopolization under § 2 of the Sherman Act.

The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Reed, and Mr. Justice Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.

Reported below: 147 F. 2d 93.  