The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-10
BOYCOTT DAMAGE SUIT
It Is Brought by the o. Z. Plumb
ing Company.
VICTIM OF THE COMBINE
The Allegation Is Made That the State
Association Has Endeavored to
Freeze Them Out of the
Business.

Another boycott damage suit was
brought in the district court yesterday.
The plaintiffs are ID. j. Winslow and
Charles f. Sperry, c~o-partners. doing
business under the firm name of the
o. X. Plumbing company, and they
want $500 from the defendants, the
Eschle Plumbing & Heating company.
Andrew j. Davis, Louis Eschle. j. M.
Dutton. /. Kruger, A. ]. Walker, Ed
win Wright and Joseph Carney.
The complaint in the case alleges
that the plaintiffs are engaged in a
general plumbing business at No. IL
North Wyoming street, and that the
defendants are members of and asso-
ciated with a combine or association
known as the State Plumbers asso-
citation, and conducted by the defend
ants and others throughout the state
for the sole purpose of controlling n
m~onopolizing the plumbing business OF
Silver Bow county and the state or
Montana, and for the purpose OF boy
cotting and freezing out of business the
plaintiffs and all other persons who do
not belong to or are mber OF the
state association, and for The purpose
of preventing and hindering them from
securing contracts for plumbing work,
and for the purpose of p~ersuading n
coercing and intimidating other per-
sons from ~patronizing the plaintiffs,
and preventing h latter from pur-
chasing and procuring supplies n
materials with which to carry on their
business. During last month, II is al
legged, while the plaintiffs were legally
engaged in their business, the defend
ants, as an association n individuals.
conspired for the purpose of boycotting
and running the business of the plain
tiffs and prevent them from obtaining
employment, and notified the O. N.
Nelson Manufacturing company of st.
Louis and the United States Supply
of Omaha by telegraph and
letter not to sell or deliver any sup
plies or plumbing goods to the plain
tiffs, at the same time threatening to
withdraw and Withhold the patronage
of the defendants and the state asso-
citation from the St. Louis and Omaha
supply companies If they should or
would sell or deliver any plumbing
goods of any kind to the plaintiffs. At
the time the threats were made the
plaintiffs had given the Omaha and st.
Louis houses orders for a large amount
of plumbing and fitting goods and sup
plies for doing plumbing work. which
goods were needed for completing con-
tracts which the plaintiffs had on hand.
BY reason of the notice n threats
sent out by the defendants. the two
houses refused to deliver the goods
and supplies ordered and informed the
plaintiffs the defendants prevented
them from selling goods to the plain
tiffs, and by reason of the act the plain
tiffs were damaged in the sum of 5000
During last month, IL is alleged, the
defendants mad and circulated false
and untrue statements as being true
about the plaintiffs and their standing
as a business firm for the purpose OF
boycotting the plaintiffs and preventing
them from securing work. and as a
result of the false and untrue state
ments the plaintiffs lost contracts t.
their damage i'm the sum of 81. 900.
BY reason of the threats and notice
served on the Omaha and st. Louis
houses. the plaintiffs were compelled
to go East i'm person to st. Paul and
other cities to secure material with
which to complete their contracts tC
their further damage in the sum of 5000
BY reason of the false and malicious
statements circulated by the defend
ants, which statements were believed
by many persons. the plaintiffs were
damaged i'm their business reputation
to the extent of S.. 900, and judgment
for the various amounts, a~ggregatine
IS. 200. is asked for. d. II. Kehoe is at
torney for the plaintiffs.