Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16

| ing companies and other corporations
mine and carry to the various markets fol
| anthrscit coal more than 90 percentum
| of all the anthracite coal mined and carried
to the various markets in the United States
The Constitution Violated.
90 Your orator AYERS and charges that
the leases and agreements s above set forth
Reading Railroad Company has, whether
directly or indirectly, leased and acquired
possession and control Of the lines
mining lands. collieries property.
rolling stock and works of the said The
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey.
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, and the other
| corporations, leased or controlled by or
subsidiary to the foregoing corporations,
are in violation of the constitution OF this
Commonwealth. injurious to the public
interest, against public policy, illegal and
void.
Wherefore. your orator prays equitable re-
lief as follows:
First-That the said defendants, and every
of them be required to make full discovery
of all the leases, contracts and agreements
made and executed on the 11th and
18th days Of Feb February, saSs lSM D be be-
road Company and the Lehi9h Valley Rail-
road Company; between the Port Reading
Railroad Company and the Central Railroad
deipRia and Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany and the Lehigh Valley Coal Company:
and between the Central Railroad Company
Of New Jersey, the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company and the Port Reading
Railroad Company; ana of all contracts and
agreements between the said parties, or any
OF them, made before or since the above
days, collateral with or related to the said
leases. contracts and agreements of the llth
and 18th days of February, 1892, and also Of
all agreements or leases made between the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, the
Central Railroad Company Of New Jersey,
or by and between any of them, relating to
or connected with the matters here1nbefore
set forth and complained of.
Second-That decree be entered declar-
ing null and void all the said agreements or
leases so made on the 11th and 18th days of
leases collateral with or in any way related
thereto, and so as above set forth in this
bill
A Perpetual Injunction Wanted.
Third-That the said Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, and every other
railroad company Or corporation OF what
ever kind which is owned by, leased OF con-
trolled by the said The Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, be restrained by
q perpetual injunction from, in any manner,
operating, using or controlling the railroads,
canals, works. mines, mining lands or col.
llerles rolllng stocK or othor properly ~
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, the
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company,
the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, The
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey,
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
or any other Of them, or of any other corpor-
alton owned by or leased to or controlled by
the said corporations, or any or either of
them.
Fourth-That decree be entered that the
said The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
to the said The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany, The Lehigh Valley Coal Company, The
Central Railroad Company Of New Jersey,
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.
the owners OF former lessees OF the Lehfgh
and Susquehanna Railroad and the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company all the rail
lands, collieries, rolling stock or other
in the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, of them the said the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company, the Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, the Lehigh and Snsquehanna
and the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre |
Coal Company, or OF any other corporations |
owned by or leased to or controlled by the |
said corporations or any or either OF them, |
the possession of which has been taken, d. |
delphia and Reading Railroad Company, and |
in pursuance of the said leases or agree |
ments so made on the 1lth and 18th days of |
February, 1892, or under or in pursuance of |
my other leases, contracts or agreements, |
collateral with or in any way related there |
TO- as set forth in this bill
Fffth-That such other and further relief |
nay be had in the premises as the nature of
The case shall require, and as to Your Honors |
may seem meet.