George Howard Earle, Jr.

“ The expression "combination in the form of trust or otherwise in restraint of trade or commerce" is used to cover, include, and mean combinations of two or more persons, to do or accomplish any of the things declared to be in contravention of the public policy of the United States, as in this act declared; or to, in any wise, accomplish any purpose that will restrain, or tend to restrain, trade or commerce ”

“ And damages may be proved in any legal way, including proof of prior earnings of the plaintiff in a business unlawfully interfered with or by the earnings of the defendant or defendants in the most profitable part of their business, not exceeding in amount the amount of business which could and would probably have been done but for the wrongs complained of. No action, however, to be sustainable where the plaintiff's case does not exceed a mere unacted upon desire or intent to so engage in such trade. ”