$251,000,000 Action
NEW YORK, Fri.—The Ford Motor Company and the Dearborn Motors Corporation and officers and directors of those companies today were sued for damages totalling $251,000,000 in the Federal Court under the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust laws by Mr Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson system of farm tractors and implements. The complaint alleged that from July, 1947, the defendants deliberately copied the Ferguson system tractor and line of farm implements and unlawfully seized and used his inventions, thus violating the agreement of trust entered into in 1938 by Mr Ferguson and the late Mr Henry Ford. The president of the Ford Motor Company, Mr Henry Ford 11, denied in a statement in Detroit the charges made in the suit.
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Northern Advocate, 10 January 1948, Page 4
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122$251,000,000 Action Northern Advocate, 10 January 1948, Page 4
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