47-25-101 - Trusts, etc., lessening competition or controlling prices unlawful and void.
47-25-101. Trusts, etc., lessening competition or controlling prices unlawful and void.
All arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts, or combinations between persons or corporations made with a view to lessen, or which tend to lessen, full and free competition in the importation or sale of articles imported into this state, or in the manufacture or sale of articles of domestic growth or of domestic raw material, and all arrangements, contracts, agreements, trusts, or combinations between persons or corporations designed, or which tend, to advance, reduce, or control the price or the cost to the producer or the consumer of any such product or article, are declared to be against public policy, unlawful, and void.
[Acts 1891, ch. 218, § 1; 1903, ch. 140, § 1; Shan., § 3185; Code 1932, § 5880; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 69-101.]