Case file M2265: State of Minnesota v. Grocery stores and milk companies, 1958-1962.

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Case file M2265: State of Minnesota v. Grocery stores and milk companies, 1958-1962.

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Correspondence, memoranda, court documents, depositions, and price data for actions taken in district courts by the state of Minnesota against numerous grocery stores and milk companies for violating the Minnesota Unfair Competition and Discrimination Act and the Minnesota Dairy Industry Unfair Trade Practices Act. They were charged with selling at less than cost and with conducting stamp and merchandise give-aways that had the effect of injuring competitors and destroying competition.

1.25 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 partial box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...