<P> The Northern Securities Company was a short - lived American railroad trust formed in 1901 by E.H. Harriman, James J. Hill, J.P. Morgan and their associates . The company controlled the Northern Pacific Railway; Great Northern Railway; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; and other associated lines . It was capitalized at $400 million, and Hill served as president . </P> <P> The company was sued in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the first anti-trust cases filed against corporate interests instead of labor . The government won its case, and the company was dissolved, so that the three railroads again operated independently . </P> <P> Hill was the president of the Great Northern Railway and Harriman controlled the Union Pacific Railroad, two of the largest railroads in the U.S. Both sought control of the Burlington to connect their roads to the vital railroad hub of Chicago, Illinois . Hill, who also had a minority interest in the Northern Pacific Railway, outbid Harriman for the Burlington, by agreeing to Burlington President Charles Elliott Perkins's $200 - a-share price . </P>

Who used the sherman antitrust act to dissolve the monopoly of the northern securities company