Ida Tarbell

“ ANSWER OF WILLIAM C. SCOFIELD ET AL.
[In the case of the Standard Oil Company vs. William C. Scofield et al, in the Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1880.]
That the so-called agreement is and at all times has been utterly void and of no effect, as being by its terms in restraint of trade and against public policy. ”

“ These defendants further say that they deny that through any action of theirs said plaintiff has sustained or will sustain any damage whatever, but these defendants say that their business of distilling oil has been carried on at a large profit, and that the same is now attended with large profits, and the price of refined oil is now so high, and there is such a large margin between the price of crude oil and refined, that the manufacture and sale of refined oil is attended with large profit ”