The age-herald., 1900-03-01
ONE DEFENDANT
 FILES HIS ANSWER Was Formerly Secretary of the Carnegie Steel Company. ADMITS TRICKS CHARGES He Says That the Plaintiff Was Not Nec- essarily Expelled From the Com
 pany After the Iron Clad
 Agreement
| ADMITS TRICKS CHARGES

Pittsburg, Pa, February 2S.-Francis F. T. Lovejoy former secretary of the Carne- gie Steel company, one of the defendants in the suit of H. c. Prick against the steel company to determine the value of his holdings in said company, late this even ing filed his answer. The document was as follows:
 q Francis F. Lovejoy, one of the defend- ants in answer to the above stated bill Tor my certificate, personally (but not as a trustee for the Carnegie Steel company, limited, having since the filing of said bill rendered my resignation as such trustee) do now say:
 'First-Being on January 10, 1900, of the opinion and belief:
 ..1 That the so-called iron-clad agree mend under the provisions whereof the ex- pulsion of the plaintiff from membership in the Carnegie Steel company, limited, was sought to be accomplished, was. and is, for various reasons not necessary now to De set forth, null and void and of non-effect.
 ..2. That even if the so-called iron-clad agreement were in full force and effect, vet no cause existed for the expulsion there- under of plaintiff from membership in the said association"
 "3. That even if the so-called aron-clad agreement were in full force and eneot' and even if technical cause was 6y cer- tain members believed ito exist for the ex- pu.s.icm of the plaintiff from membership in said Caanegte Steel company, limited, yet, inasmuch as it was and IS Of vital importance to sad Carnegie Steel com pany. Limited auld to its welfare as busi- ness association uIat the plaintin should continue his membership therein and shou-u continue as in the past to aid It an Fhe conduct of its affairs by his counsel ana advice a meeting Of all or majority or the shares or including the plaintiff should have been called When any difference of opinion might have been freely discussed and probaltny eAmlEated and
 A. That should the plairI1-n have been willing after this discussion in the inter- esbs of harmony to withdraw from mem Ibership in the sad Carnegie Steel com pany, Knitted, and to sell his interest there in, justice and equity demanded that he should have been paid by ahe sald asso- ciatlCn, or by any paEtner or partners therein, or by any ether person or per sons whomsoever purchasing this said in- terest in said association such price as would be either satisfactory to said plalnt- if, or would represent the real value of said interest, nnd that he should not be compelied to sell at such price and upon such terms or payment as the purchasers themselves might fix without consulting with the plaintiff.
 'I refused to sign when requested so to do the notice intended to compel under the so-called 'iron-clad agreement the with drawal of the plaintiff from membership in said company or his expulsion, should he fail refuse to assign his interest therein for consideration virtually nominal; and upon the return to Pttshurg of the presi- dent of the Carnegie Steel company, limit ed, on January F, 1900, rendered my resig- nation from the board of managers of said association, and my resignation as the sec retary thereof, which resigoations were the same day accepted.
 ''rhe averments of the plaintiffs are true as to nearly all of my knowledge, as to the remainder, to tine best of my informa tion and belief, and I join with the plaintiff in praying that your honorable body will de- cree that the plaintiff was on February 1, 1900 and is still a member of and sharehold- CT in the Carnegie Steel company, limited, and as such is entitled ito all the rights and privileges thereto pertaining.
 ''I pray your honorable body to declare that ann no more than nominal defend- ant in these proceedings, having personally neither taken any part in nor encouraged the acts complained of by the plaintiff, and that I stand before the court with clean hands, having sought to do only what seems right and just, and not influenced by fear or favor.
 (signed) "FRANCIS T. LOvEJoY."