On 114 years ago today, May 15, 1911 (April 17, 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Mobil Oil Company was dissolved. On May 15, 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Mobil Oil Company monopolized trade and ordered it to be dissolved within six months. The ruling held that the Sherman Antitrust Law did not mechanically prohibit all monopolistic trade, but prohibited unreasonable monopolies. Such a verdict will have a profound impact on the handling of trust cases in the future.