The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-09
MOT ION OF
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neutrality-suspicious.
Decision Against the
Standard Oil

Jefferson City. Mo, March e.-The
motions by the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana and the Republic Oil Com
pany of Ohio for a re-hearing of tho
custer suit recently decided against
them for modification of the iudg-
ment we're overruled by the Missouri
Supreme court to,lay.
The position Of the Watcrs-Pierce
Oll company was upheld, the motion
OF the attorney general for an absolute
custer oil the Missouri company being
denied, the compliance with the court
order recently filed by the company
approved, and the Judgment OF custer
against 1t being suspended
The effect Of these decisions is TO
eXpel the Indiana and Ohio companies
from Missouri and TO restore the Wat
ers-Pierce company, sixty per cent OF
whose stock Is held by the Standard
OIL Company of New Jersey, the right
TO do business within the state.
No formal opinion in the premlses
was read. Chief Justice Valiant SIM
ply announcing the gist of the courts
decision. Justices Lamm and Wood
son dissented
The Standard Oil interests arc ex.
pected TO appeal from the decision and
carry their case to the supreme court
of the United States.
The decision is considered d great
victory for The Waters-Pierce company
and incidentally for the minority In
tercsls of that concern who claim to
have been making unayailing efforts
10. no.
the New Jersey corporations. With
this object in view, they declined to
approve the proposition made by the
Standard Oi! company of Indiana.that
that company be allowed to continue
business in the state under trustee
ship composed OF representatives OF
the court and the company With the
judgment OF custer made absolute
against the Standard OIL company OF
Indiana and the Republic Oil company.
these concerns must now pay their
fines of $4,000 each, aud cease bust
ness in the state. The $4,000 fine
assessed against the Waters-Pierce
company has been paid In conjunc-
ton with the certified check which the
Missouri company filed with the clerk
of the court, there was presented a
document accepting the courts or
lginal decree which carried condi-
tional permit to continue business.
These provisions included that the
company must be so reorganiZed as
TO be free from Standard Oil control.
There was nothing in the document
to show that this had been done and
on this basis the attorney general
moved that the custer decree be made
! effective at once When informed OF
! the action today, the attorney general
said. THE decision of the courts
simply means that the Waters-Pierce
company will not be ouSted from the
state at this time. However, the orig
inal judgment OF the court will stand
against it, SO that If 1t violates the
courts decree, the state can renew its
application for custer.
1.-The state asked that the court
make the custer decree Immediately
as we contended the Waters-Pierce
Company had not complied with the
conditions laid down by the supreme
court in the first instance"
The following order was made by
the court in relation to the Waters
H1GIct COlupduS.
"The Waters@Pierce OIL company
having rendered into court the amount
of the fine imposed upon 1t by the
Judgment of this court. and having
/ given satisfactory evidence OF its pur-
pose. henceforth, so to conduct its bus
mess as not to violate the law oil this
state in regard to the pools. trusts and
conspiracies, il is ordered by the court
that the clerk of this court receive
the money so rendered, and pay the
same into the state treasury, and It
is further ordered that the judgment
OF this court Of date OF December %,
1908. ousting the Waters-Pierce Oil
company OF its charter and ad1udginS
all its rights and privileges thcreun-
der forfeited and annulled, be and tho
same is hereby suspended until other
wise ordered by the court. but the
court will retain Jurisdiction or tho
case for the purpose of setting aside
and annulling this order or modifying
the same IL tho court should hereafter
ON motion of the attorney general. or
its own motion, become satisfied that
the Waters Pierce Oil company Is at
that time or has been conducting its
business in manner forbidden by tne
laws of this state in relation to pools.
trusts and conspiracies
In their dissenting opinion filed with
the order, Justices Woodson and
lamm hold that the Waters-Pierce
company has not complied with the
courts order to withdraw from the
trust" relation with the other COM
panies.