The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-08
TRADING COUPON COMPANY SUES
Conspiracy Alleged to Injure it's Bus

Conspiracy Alleged to Injure it's Busi-
 ness-Perpetual Injunction Asked for.
 Suit was brought by the New Eng land Trading Coupon company yester- day against P. J. Kelly and Charles F.. Southard alleging conspiracy to injure the plaintiffs business. The plaintiff claims s2.500 damages and asks for a perpetual injunction restraining the de- fendants from committing the wrongs complained Of
 The suit is brought in the name of Louis Segal, who has been conducting the business of the New England Trad ing Coupon company, and is made re- turnable before the February term of the superior court. The attorneys for Segal are E. F. Arvine and Isaac Wolf. The complaint Is as follows:
 1. During the year 1897, and up to the date of this complaint, the plaintiff had been engaged In said city and town of New Haven, and in various other cities and towns in said state, in the business of selling trading coupons to merchants and retail dealers.
 2. The business of selling said trad ing coupons was conducted by means of written contracts between the plain tiff and his customers all In the form, copy Of which is hereto annexed and marked Exhibit IA" and the plaintiff had made, during said period, a large number of such contracts with retail merchants and business men In said city and town of New Haven, and in | ,1tt A o,,I nit i,, sat tnf had derived thereffom large profit, and was continuing to make said con tracts and prospecting in said business up to the time of the grievances here matter complained of.
 g. On or about the first day of De- cember, 1897, at said town, the defend ants maliciously and unlawfully con- spired together, and with sundry other persons to the plaintiff unknown, to in- jure the plaintiff In said business and to break up the same by holding public meetings and denouncing, at said meet ings said business as unlawful, illegal, fraudulent and improper and by threat ening to prosecute the plaintiff and his customers, by creating public ill-will and disfavor towards the plaintiff and his said business, and to persuade the public from entering into such contracts with the plaintiff and from dealing with him, and through the means aforesaid, and by private conversations with his various customers to persuade them to break their said contracts with him, and to discontinue the purchase of said l coupons during the year provided for l in said contracts, and to iniure the plaintiff in his business.
 | 4. In purusance of said conspiracy, on divers days between the first day of December, 1897, and the date of this complaint, the defendants hired sun dry halls in said town of New Haven and held public meetings therein, which meetings were advertised in the news papers of said town, at their request and expense, and at which meetings large numbers of people were assem- bled; and at said public meetings de- nounced the business of the plaintiff | as unlawful, fraudulent and improper; l and at said public meetings threatened the plaintiff and his customers with prosecutions, and endeavored at said meetings, by the means aforesaid, to ] induce the customers of the plaintiff to discontinue their contracts with him. and to persuade the public, not to en- | ter into such contracts with the plain | tiff; and further, in pursuance of said conspiracy, the defendants, on various days between the first day of December | 1897, and the date of this complaint went to the customers of the plaintiff l and endeavored to persuade them tc break their contracts with the plaintiff and to discontinue the purchase of trading coupons from him during the year provided for in their said con- tracts, by representing said business tc | be improper, unlawful and unprofitable to said customers, and by representing that the plaintiff was making enormous profits, and by representing that the | business was fraudulent and illegiti. mate, and by various other representa- tions and means to the plaintiff un. | known.
 5. In consequence of the aforesaid acts of the defendants a large number [ of the customers of the plaintiff broke
 their said contracts with the plaintiff and discontinued purchasing said trad