Action  for  damages  under  the  Sherman  Act.  Here  the  plaintiff
had  previously  sued  the  president  of  the  association  who  had  settled
the  previous  action  and  paid  the  plaintiff  the  amount  agreed  upon  in
settlement.
Held,  such  settlement  was  an  accord  and  satisfaction  of  the  entire
claim  and  a  bar  to  the  second  suit.
United    States    v.     Eastern    States    Retail    Lumber

Dealers   Association,    201    Fed.    581    (District   Court,

Southern  District  of  New  York).
Suit  in  equity  under  the  Sherman  Act  in  which  a  decree  was
entered  for  the  complainant  restraining  certain  activities  of  the  de-
fendant.   Upon  appeal  to  the  Supreme  Court  the  decree  was  affirmed.
234  U.  S.  600.  Here  the  association  issued  official  reports  con-
taining lists  of  wholesale  dealers  doing  an  interstate  business  who


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made  sales  direct  to  consumers.  Such  association  endeavored  to
secure  information  concerning  such  sales  by  wholesalers  and  used  its
official  reports  for  tlie  purpose  and  effect  of  influencing  members  re-
ceiving such  reports  to  cease  buying  from  such  wholesale  dealers.
Held,  words  "restraint  of  trade"  as  used  in  the  Sherman  Act  are
to  be  construed  as  including  "restraint  of  competition,"  and  such  activi-
ties of  the  combination  were  in  restraint  of  competition  and  should
be  enjoined.
United  States  v.  Southern  Wholesale  Grocers  Associa-
tion, 207  Fed.  434.
