The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-28
PIILOT MiCIIIiE LITIG IT!ON.
The Inventor Gets the stock lie Was Induced
by False Representations to rrnnsfer.

ROCHESTER. Jan. 2T-Ju3ticc Nash % the
Supreme Court to-day directed Alexander
McTamuany ~ Worcester, Mass. TO turn over
$4,000 worth Of tho stock 81 the Standard
Voting Machine COMPANY to hl'rat J. Gillespie
OF this city, the inventor Of the Standard ma
chine. These machines Were in use In n nun
tor OF cities in this State at tho lat election,
The capital stock OF the company is $4,000,
go that the san involved One-halt ~ the ctpi-
tali2ation. The company IS in "a very prosper
Gus condition. and is about the only one Of tho
numerous ballot machine companies that has
amounted to anything. David Hays. who j.
attorney for Nj. Gillespie. to-day made the FOL
lowing statement;
when the STANDARD Ballot Machine Com.
rany was organized one-half Of the capital
stock. ~ the value o. $4,000. was issued to tho
inventor. Alfred J. Gillespie. After tho com-
pany secured a contract with tho city OF RO-
chester the stock became Of considerable
value. Just before election day John McTam.
many OF Worcester, Mass, came TO Rochester
and called on iillespe. McTammany Is a
remote on an extensive scale OF corporation !
for DEVELOPING the ballot machine business. II
was very important for him 70 bring ms
standard Com nany into some sort " romhina-
tiOn which h. might cOntrO,, On that VISIT, on
the eve Of the Colchester election. he Insisted
that the Rochester people 90 into some sort It
a combination with him. or he would get AN IN
junction in the courts to restrain the election
on tie ground that the machines lutcti"fcl
with his patents. The election Uroreelei.
however. without tho threatened attack. Nc.
THmmany continued TO hurl ou' threats until
he had G. lle-pie thoroughly frightened. Gil
lespie then negotiated with parties In ROche--
ter to sci his stock FOR lUOOOO McTammlny
tplegraphed him to come OF 20 Worcester. pre-
pared to sell the stock to him at that figure.
Gillespie went 70 Worcester. and M~cIammany
representa- 10 him hat his stock WAS value
less, and Tint his associates, lawman, Erhe
and Lomb, were about to freeze hun out. H.
persuaded Gillespie TO give mp his stock. for
which he expected SlO0.VDO. hv giving him IN
exchange ;or II som" stock IN n company called
RI. international Company, which haf no cN-
istonce except on pa per. and - stock hal no
value whatever. When q ile~plr diSrOverel
! that no had been huucunl. he sought 10 have
the transaction set IA Dc. on tho grounl that
he had been swindlei.'
Judge Nash I'm : that McTammary's repro
scniations were false and that Gillespie was
duped INTO parting with his rto"E, lie decides
that McTammany must return his stock 70
Gillespie. IN his decision Justice Wash sav~'
MY conclusion Is that tie representations
alleged TO have heen made hy McTammany 10
GiIIpapir 10 induce the latter to MAKE tho
transfer were made az alleged and testified -
by Gillespie. and that the SANE was in every
material respect false and untrue, and as such,
sufficient to set aside the transfer hv which
Gillespie sold n the International BallO' Ma
chine Company his stock in tho standard Ballot
Company. worth at least s3D.OOO.f for nothing