National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-12-21
THE WASHINGTON MARKET COMPANY.

answer to the Bill Of George n. OYSTER.
The Washington Market Company yesterday
filed their answer to the bill of George NJ. Oyster
against Them, lately published in the newspapers
of the city.
Alter denying all the charges of mismanage-
ment made by Mr.. Oyster, in his bill, the answer
proceeds as follows:
For further answer to the sfore said bill OF CON-
plant, the defendants aver that, in their BELIEF
this suit is not prosecuted by the plaintiff in good
ia s tsT ss aSl sad H ens hundred
four shares of stock in said company, purchased
by him on said 18th OF February, 1875, but that
solely in order to enable the plaintiff and others
associated with him to obtain an unfair advan-
tsge over said company, in controversies between
said company and him and said associates, not as
stockholders, but as occupants of stalls In the
market, seeking to obstruct and defeat the legal
right o. the company 60 sell az adc al sne PT g
to collect rents and compensation for their use
and occupancy of said STALLS and also in order to
the revenue and credit Of said company, SO as to
strengthen and build up large rival market,
Of which said plaintiff and his associates are prtn-
cipal owners and occupants.
In the summer Of 1872 the.market buildings of
the defendant company were nrst ready Tor occu-
paney. Under section second OF us charter the
stalls and stands for two years from July 1872,
paying q fixed rent therefor. At this auction
sale the plaintiff and several hundred other deal
ers purchased rights for said two years, received
written permits to occupy for that time only, and
siRned agreements TO vacate at the END OF tneir
terms About June, 1874, the company advertised
for sale auction the rights to occupy stalls tor
the further term of three years from July i, 1874
TheTeugon the plaintln and many other oea ts,
purchases for two years they were entitled TO hold
In perpetuity, and an injunction prohibiting the
company from reselling the stalls at auction was
procured in equity numbered SIsT on the docket
Of this court, in behalf Of one James A. Holman,
in which suit the present plaintiff and about two
rI-afr 1Ny haaa Daa
parties plaintiff. The liiig alton thus commenced
is still pending, and this plaintiff and between
come engaged in an earnest controversy with the
defendant company, which involves many thou
sands OF dollars in value. During the pendancy
Of this controversy nearly all these associated
market dealers have refused to pay 10 the de-
tendant company rental or TOR use and occupation
Of the stalls of which they are in possession, and
they are indebted to the company therefor to the
amount Of about $4,000.
These associated dealers have also organized q
Rfs Wen as MS Or
half million dollars, and have constructed large
and costly market buildings and hold therein
plaintiff is a stakeholder, and he is owner and
occupant Of stalls in its market buildings. These
associated dealers have also organized 9 Market
Dealers Mutual Protective Association, "of which
this plaintiff is president, the avowed object Of
which is to carry on the controversies OF said
dealers with the defendant company; and acting
in concert and combination, they have, by written
agreement, assumed the expense Of the aboye-re-
cited and all proceedings concerning the subject
conpapV Whether suits In equity. suits for rental
or for compensation for use and occupation, or
suits under the landlord and tenant act, and
against ali, or any one Of them; and they have
employed the same counsel IN all the various
forms Of litigation which have taken place, in
In all this combined rivalry and resistance to the
rights Of the defendant company, and in the as
saults upon it, the plaintiff has been foremost;
A IN frs have M ha nd
aforesaid, and for no other purpose whatsoever,
as the defendants believe and aver, the plaintiff
on. in which he took the lead earnestly engaging
in opposing before committees Of Congress legis-
lation designed to quiet those controversies, to
and to make its stock valuable) purchased said
one hundred and four shares Of stock. and now
brings this suit.
purchased said 104 shares OF stock on the 18th day
Of February, 1875, of q stakeholder who had been
aware, prior to that date, OF all the transactions
ants in connection Herewith, rected in the plain
tiff s bill, which happened before that date, and
that said stockholder had acqulesced in and con-
sented to such transactions, and had made no
complaint thereof in any way or form, as the de-
PENDANTS believe and aver. The defendants, there
plaintiff is not preventive, but primitive, and is
asked for chiefly because OF transactions long past
before the purchase oil shares by the plaintiff;
and these defendants saving and reserving to
themselves all right OF exception TO the said BILL
hope they shall have the same benefit Of this and
ali defenses as If they had demurred to said bill
THE WASHINGTON Market COMPANY,
BY p. S. SMITH, CLERK.
NJ. g. EMERY,
W. L. CHANDLER,
N. q. ORpwAY,
THOMAS @. connolly,
SAMUEL s. SHOOT,
HALLEr KILBoURN,
FITZHuGH CoYLE,
i. Il. CLARK,
J. II. Ella,
p. s. SMITH,
MOSES KELLY.
Jos. H. BRADLEY,)
WM BIRNEY, Solicitors for Defendants.
BENZ. T. BUTLER,