The Saint Paul globe., 1896-10-22
GLOVER LEAF CASE
NEW SENSATIONAL CHAPTER
ADDED TO THE ALREADY FA-
NOUS LITIGATION.
A BOYCOTT IS ALLEGED
BY CHICAGO-NEW YORK LINES TO
COERCE THE CLOVER
LEAF.
THE TARIFF ASSOCIATION CITED.
Joint Agreement Alleged to Be n
Conspiracy and in Defiance of
the Commercial Law.

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. PA sensa-
tional chapter has been added to the
already famous suit Of the Continental
Trust company. of New York, against
the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
Railroad company, better known as the
Glover Leaf. Attorney Clarence Brown,
for the receiver Of the Clover Leaf,
filed petition in the United States cir
cult court today against the Lake
Shore, Nickel Plate and Michigan Cen
trail roads, as members of the Joint
traffic association. The petition asks for
a restraining order, which was granted
by Judge Kicks today.
The Glover Leafs receiver asserts
that the Joint Traffic association, COM
prising all the trunk lines between New
York and Chicago, and deviating lines,
some thirty-eight in all, have been try
ing to compel the Glover Leaf to be-
come member of the association,
which that road refused to do, declin
ing to be bound by the regulations Of
the Joint Traffic association. The asso-
citation, in order to bring the Glover
Leaf to time, then determined to sever
all passenger relations between it's
roads and the Glover Leaf. The receiv-
ers petition alleges that the association
threatened to sever all freight relations,
the real ground of complaint, according
to the petition, being that the Glover
Leaf is obtaining more than it's share
Of the east-bound traffic.
The receiver refused to divide this
traffic, and, as a result of this refusal,
all roads in the Joint Traffic associa-
ton, and all connecting roads, served
notice on the Glover Leaf that after
Oct. 27, 1896, they would refuse to honor
all through tickets or baggage checks
issued by the Glover Leaf or by any
other company for the Glover Leaf, or
any tickets or checks which read "by
way of the Glover Leaf road" The re-
suit of this would be, it Is alleged, to
destroy all through passenger traffic of
the road.
In the petition the receiver attacks
the Joint Traffic association agreement,
on the ground that it Is an unlawful
conspiracy and violation of the inter-
state commerce law, and a combination
to destroy competitive traffic, and that
it is an attempt to give an unlawful
advantage to these roads to unlaw-
fully discriminate, and that it is an
unlawful conspiracy at common law;
1t is in restraint of trade, and that 1t
III FiOldllOil OI Ill dCt. O1 COuRTGSS
entitled the ANTITRUST law, preventing
combinations for the purpose Of control
ling trade"
The petition further charges the Joint
Traffic association and the other roads
with instituting a boycott against the
Glover Leaf, which, the petition says,
is precisely the same thing as COM
bination among employees of a railroad
for the purpose of preventing the oper-
alton of the road, which has been held
to be a boycott. 1t is also charged that
the companies are in contempt of the
order of the court, which appointed the
receiver directing the operation of the
road. The final hearing of the case
was fixed for the first Tuesday in De-
cember, with leave to different COM
panies to move to dissolve the restrain
Ing order at any time. The temporary
restraining order Is now in effect and
the companies will not attempt to
put the agreement of the Joint Traffic
association in effect until the final
hearing. The same petition will, in all
probability, be filed against thirty
eight different railroads in the various
United States circuit court jurisdic-
tions.