The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-25
AGAINST THE PUlIMANS.
n Case Goes Back To the Lower Court
for Further Trial.

The Case Goes Back To the Lower Cour
for Further Trial.
Chicago. Oct. 2l-The supreme court OF
Illinois decided to-day that the action IN
stituted by eS-Attorney General Maurice
i. Moloney during his term of office to
compel the Pullman Palace Car company
TO restrict Its operations to charter limi-
tations should stand and remanded the
case to the circuit court of Cook county,
where II will now be tried. Ex-Attorney
General Moloney has contended that the
Pullman company was Incorporated sim
ply for the purpose OF making. selling and
leasing railroad and street cars.
His object was to compel the impair
to retire from the real estate. gas. water.
heating. brickmaking and other enter
prises conducted by IL at the town of Pull
man and In Chicago. The case was fought
by counsel for the company and was
thrown out by the circuit court. Counsel
for the state murr and an appeal was
taken TO the supreme court. which was
decided In favor of the former attorney
general.
John s. Runnels. general counsel for the
corporation. said the corporation always
believed itself justified fully. legally and
by the terms OF its charter in all Its ac-
tons.
THE town of Pullman was built for the
convenience of the Pullman operatives"
he declared. THE step has been taken for
the urpos OF consulting good lawyers.
among them ex-justice of the supreme
court OF Illinois Lawrence. II should also
be remembered hat the courts that have
passed upon the case have not been unan-
imous. Judge Baker of the circuit court
upheld the contentious of the company
and the supreme court Is not united in its
declaration.
1.-THE case has been before the supreme
court three years. The decision of Judge
Baker was affirmed in part. upheld in part
and the case was remanded for further
proceedings In the circuit court. The case
went up on demurrer to our pleadings.
which was overruled. Judge Baker de-
cided all points in favor of the company
except the right of the company to hold
stock in the Pullman Iron and Steel COM
pany.
1.-The defense is two-fold-that
the liberal special legislative charter OF
such real estate as the board of directors
nigh deem necessary: secondly, that the
time for the state TO object was when the
town was built. not IA years afterwards.
I presume that the circuit court will give
the company a reasonable amount of time
in which to comply with the law as con-
strued by the supreme court. The COM
pany will not attempt to disobey the or
ders OF the court"
Among the properties the Pullman Pat
ace Car company is charged with holding
and using in violation OF Its charter are
the following: The Pullman block on
Michigan avenue; the town of Pullman.
including buildings which are rented and
furnished homes to 12.OOo people, all the
streets and all railways of Pullman, the
sewage system. school houses. two church
az. a thester, a market hall. the Arcade
building. the hotel office. the gas plant.
the water system. a large number OF cars
upon which liquors are sold. a large body
of vacant land. the stock of the Pullman
Iron and Steel company. the stock Of the
Union foundry. the stock of the Pullman
Car Wheel company. the stock of the
Southern Pullman Palace Car company. IL
Is further generally alleged that the com
pany exercises municipal power in the
town of Pullman.