The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-02-29
FISH ROUTED BY HARRMHN
INJUNCTION WHICH RESTRAINED
VOTING OF UNION PACIFIC
STOCK IS DISSOLVED.
NO APPEAL FROM DECISION
Judge Farrar, Leading Counsel tor
S~tuyvesant Fish, Said the Case
Would Now Be Tried
on Its Merits.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-Judge Ball or the
superior court yesterday dissolved the
Injunction secured last October by
S%tuyvesant Fish, by virtue OF which
the Hartman interests were re-
strained from voting 2S1,231 shares
of the capital stock of the Illinois
Central railroad at the annual meet
ing of the company. The theory on
which counsel for Mr.. Fish based their
arguments in support of the inJunc-
tion-that it was contrary to the laws
and public policy of the state of Hi
nois to allow foreign corporations to
W and vote the stock OF democratic
corporations, was denied by the court.
Under the ruling Of the court the
previously enjoined stock which is
held by the Union Pacific Railroad
Co. and by the Railroad Securities Co.
of New Jersey can be voted at the
annual meeting of the Illinois Central,
which is to be held in this city on
March 2.
No Appeal from Decision.
There is no appeal from the de-
cision handed down yesterday by
Judge Ball, but it is considered prob
able that Mr.. Fish will take further
legal steps to regain possession of the
Illinois Central.
Judge E. B. Farrar of New Orleans,
who has acted as leading counsel for
| Mr.. Fish throughout the controversy,
said after the rendering of the de-
| cision, that the case will now be tried
on its merits, but declined to say how
quickly now proceedings will be insti-
tuted.
None of the principals in the case
were in court, both Mr.. Fish and Mr..
Hartman being in New York. All Of
the attorneys on both sides and many
| other lawyers and business men were
present and filled the courtroom to
overlooking. President Harahan of
the Illinois Central came in while the
decision was being read and heard the
latter portion of it. When the con-
| clusion had been reached he said:
my head is too full of that decision
to allow me to say anything, but to
say that l am highly pleased and more
| than highly pleased is putting it mild
ly."
10000 Words in Decision.
Judge Ball, who is of a somewhat
frail physique, turned over to his son
the task of reading the decision,
which contained almost 10000 words.
AS soon as it was concluded. there
was a veritable stampede in the court
room, brokers, lawyers and messen-
gers making a rush for the doors in
order to announce the result. They
ran into various rooms seeking for
telephones. and many tore headlong
for the elevators, while others fed
wildly down the stairways. So much
excitement and confusion has not been
witnessed in the county courthouse
for many years.
The court declared that Mr.. Fish
had not been able to prove any of his
| contentious that the domination of the
Illinois Central by Mr.. Hartman
would be to it's detriment and had ais
| failed to show that the interests of
stockholders would be injured there
by. The Union Pacific and the Illi-
nois Central, he said, were not COM
peting, but are connecting lines. and
the one could not be a commercial
rival of the other in such a sense as
to fall within the scope of legal de-
cisions against the alliance between
competing railroads. The two roads,
the court declared, were not SO stu
ated as to make it possible that they
could combine to m~onopolize traffic in
any section of the country.
The court further declared that if
the name of Mr.. Hartman was not
a name to c~onjure with, many of the
allegations made in the ase would
not be considered seriously. He was
compelled to act, he said, on facts al
legged and proved, and not fears cor
supposed prophecies" The record of
the case, he declared, failed to SUBJ
stantiate many of the declarations
made against Mr.. Hartman.
Sfodddrd-D avton Plant Burns.