TABLE OF CONTENTS. Recent growth of alarm over trusts. Distinction between public and private employments. Early English statutes regulating trade, labor and prices. Offenses abolished. English law as to combinations to raise prices as finally established. THE COURSE OF THE AMERICAN LAW AS TO PRIVATE EM- PLOYMENTS UNTIL CERTAIN RECENT DECISIONS. . . . . . . . .89-116 The course of the law down to the statutes against conspiracies in Blackstone's Offences against Public Trade." Forestalling, Regrating, Engrossing and Monopolies. Monopolies not properly so classified. All these offenses created by statute. Other cases. The situation of the New York law as it was prior to 1893 stated. Examples of statutes regulating public employments. Owner's right to freedom of contract. And to fix prices either individually or in combination with others. Anti-Trust Act. Applicability of foregoing argument to this case. |