The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-22
CLOVER LEAF HITS BACK
RECEIVER PIERCE SECURES INJUNC-
TfONs AGAINST BOYCOTTERs.
Federal Courts Restrain the joint
Traffic notwithstanding Four In
surance Association.

A sensational chapter has been added to
the already famous suit of the Continental
Trust Company, of New York. against the
Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City Railway
Company. better known as the Glover Leaf.
Attorney Clarence Brown, for the receiver
of the Glover Leaf, yesterday filed a petit
ton in the United States Circuit Court at
Cleveland, against the Lake Shore, the
Nickel Plate and the Michigan Central
roads, as members of the Joint Traffic As
ISOLATION. The petition asked for a re-
straining order, which was granted by
Judge Kicks. The Glover Leafs receiver
asserted that the Joint Traffic Association,
comprising all the trunk lines between New
York and Chicago, and deviating lines,
some thirty-eight in all. have been trying
to compel the Glover Leaf TO become. a
member of the association. but that the
Glover Leaf declined to be bound by the
regulations of the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton. The association, in order to bring the
Glover Leaf to time, then determined to
sever all passenger relations between its
roads and the Glover Leaf. The receivers
petition alleges that the association also
threatens to sever all freight relations, the
real ground of complaint, according to the
petition, being that the Glover Leaf is OBJ
tanning more than it's share of the east
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this traffic. and. as a result of this re-
fusal all roads in the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton and all connecting roads served no.
tice on the Glover Leaf that. after Oct. -.
they would refuse to honor all through
tickets or baggage checks issued by the
Glover Leaf or by any other company for
the Clover Leaf, or any tickets or checks
which read by way of the Glover Ieaf.
The result of this would be, ii 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 a violation of the interstate-commerce
law. and d combination to destroy ompet-
tive traffic. and that it is an attempt to
give an unlawful advantage TO these roads
to unlawfully that 1t is an
unlawful conspiracy in common law; that
it is in restraint of trade, and that it is in
violation of an act of Congress, entitled the
anti trust law, preventing combinations
petition further charges the Joint Traffic
Association and the other roads with in
stitutinga a boycott against the Glover Leaf,
which the petition SAYS IS precisely the
same thing as a combination among the
employees of a railroad for the purpose of
preventing the operation of the road, which
has been held to be a boycott. 1t is also
charged that the companies are in con-
tempt of the order of the court which APP
pointed the receiver directing the operation
of the road.
The final hearing of the case was fixed for
the first Tuesday in December. with leave
to the Inherent companies to move to dis
solve the restraining 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 hear
ing The same petition will be filed against
the thirty-eight different railroads In the
various United States district courts that
have Jurisdiction over the roads involved.
At Toledo Judge Kicks granted the re-
straining order.