Mr. Charles Weston, Washington, D.C., for petitioner. [ United States v. National City Lines 337 U.S. 78 (1949) ][337 U.S. 78, 79]

Mr. C. Frank Reavis, New York City, for respondents.

Mr. Chief Justice VINSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue here is whether the 1948 revision of the Judicial Code, Title 28, United States Code, 28 U.S.C.A. 1 et seq., extends the doctrine of forum non conveniens to antitrust suits. The Governments complaint in this civil suit alleged that respondent corporations have conspired to obtain control of local transportation companies in at least 44 cities in 16 states in different sections of the country, in order to restrain and monopolize interstate commerce in busses and the petroleum and other supplies incident thereto, in violation of 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. 1, 2, 15 U.S.C.A. 1, 2.

This is the second time that an order of the court below, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, attempting to effectuate a transfer of the case from Los Angeles to C