The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-21
FAILED TO SHOW THAT DoMiNA-
Tlcn eY HARTMAN WAS
DETRIMENT.
10 |. c. STOCKHOLDERS
Litigation in Chicago Court Comes TO
End----union Pacific May Now
Vote Holdings in Illinois
Central.

/ Chicago, Feb. 20.Judge Ball ct the
supreme court today dissolved the IN
junction secured last October hs
,Stuyvesant Fish by virtue OF which
the Hartman interests were re
,strained from voting 2Sl.23l shares Of
icapital stock Of the Illinois Ceatrsi
ut the annual meeting Of the com:
lpany
The theory ON which the counsel fnF
Fish based their arguments In support
lof the Injunction 1t was con
trary tc the laws and public policy
of the state OF Illinois TO allow for.
eign corporations to own and vote
stock Of domestic corporations WAS
denied By the court
! Under the ruling Ga the court pre-
yiousIy enioined stock which III held
by the Union Pacific and by the Rail
road Security company Of New Jersey,
can he voted at the annual meeting
OF the Illinois Central to be held In
Chicago on March 2.
There Ii no appeal from this do
cision handed down to-day, but II u
considered probable that Fish Will
take further legal steps 10 regain PCS
session OF the Illinois Central. Jrdge
E u. Farrar of New Orleans, who has
acted as leading counsel for Fish
throughout the controversy. said today
after the rendering OF the decision
that the case will now be tried on its
merits, but declined TO say how quick
Iy new proceedings would be insti
tuted
None OF the principals In the case
were Ia court. both Fish and Harfi
man being in New York All the AZ
torneyH on both sidrs, and many qthet
lawyers and business men, We're pres
Ient and filled the court room to over
flowing President Harahan IL the
Illinois Central came In while the
decision was being read and heard the
latter portion Of 1t. When the con
clusion had been reached he said:
my head Is too full OF that de.
cision to allow me to say anything
but to say that am highly pleased.
and more than highly pleased. Is put.
ting it mildly"
Judge Ball. who Is Of somewhat
fraiI physique, turned over to his son
the task Of reading the decision which
contained almost 10000 words
AS soon as 1t was concluded there
was stampede In the court room,
brokers, lawyers and messengers
making rush for the doors in order
to announce the result.
They ran to various rooms seeking
for telephones, and many tore head
long for the elevators, while others
fed wildly down the stairways. So
much excitement and confusion has
net been witnessed In the county court
house for many years.
The court declared that Fish had
not been able to prove any Of his
contentious that the domination OF the
Illinois Central by Hartman would be
to It's detriment. and had also failed
to show that interests OF the stock.
nulh'fs Nuuit we tu1uifH Ahtifo9s AuT
Union Pacific and Illinois Central. he
said. were not competing. but are con
Meeting lines and the one was not the
commercial rival of the other in such
sense as to fall within the scope OF
legal decision against alliances b.
tween competing railroads.
The two roads. the court declared.
were not so situated as to make Il
possible that they could combine tc
traffic in any section Of
he country. The court further de
;Iares that IL the name Of Hartman
was not a name To conjure with. many
allegations made in the ease would not
be considered seriously. He was com.
'elled to cat. he said. on facts alleged
and proved. and not fears ~or proposed
prophecies" The record of the case.
le declared. failed 60 substautisie
many declarations made against Harri-
nau