The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-27

orsd to prevent the plaintiff from me-
gotiating and selling an issue OF a
large amount. to wit. 100000, of it's
bonds which. as sai~ defendants well
knew. Il was attempting to negotiate
in the city OF Chicago. That while the
plaintiff was 50 attempting to negoti-
ate said issue OF bonds, the defendant
corporation. through Its said co-defend-
ants, or some OF them, in pursuance OF
said unia wful common design, wrote or
caused TO be written to the persons In
Chicago with whom the plaintiff was
so negotiating letters imputing to the
plaintiH an intention to defraud inyes-
tors by the issue and sale of such
bonds.
Plaintiff AYERS that upon receipt Of
said letters, the persons with whom 1t
was 10 negotiating, dissented from
further efforts to consummate the is-
sue and sale of said bonds until Il
could communicate with the plaintiff.
That the plaintiff suffered great delay
and was put to great expense by said
malicious and unlawful conduct afore-
satd on the part of said defendants.
"Plaintiff claims of the defendants
the further sum of 100000 as damages
for this: And plaintiff here adopts as
II here again fully set forth, all the
averments of the first count OF this
complaint, down to md Including the
In the twelve months next before the
bringing of this suit and adds thereto
the following: Wrongfulfy and true
deceit and fraud have attempted to in
duce and have induced customers, who
had subslsting contracts with the
plaintiff whereby they have agreed to
purchase from the plaintiff electric cur
rent for term of years which had not
then expired. TO violate said contracts
and to refuse to purchase such electric
current from plaintiff and to purchase
such electric current from said defend
ant corporation. And plaintiff AYERS
that at the time when said contract
was so violated, they were in full force
and effect and were oeing performed by
the plaintiff and complied with by said
other contracting parties, respectively.
That said unlawful conduct aforesaid
said defendants have caused the plain
tiff special damages in the loss Of pat
ronage Of said customers and the prof
its and income which would have made
during said term of years in furnish
ing electricity"
Mr., Chambers Interviewed.
Mr.. r. J. Chambers, vice-president
and General Manager of the Mont
gomery Light and Water Power Com
pany. and one of the defendants in
the above suit. when interviewed.
said: 1.-THE complaint AYERS:
.First-That the Citizens Company
had q good credit about swelve months
ago and that the defendants have,
since that time. injured or destroyed
It;
"Second-That we had written or
caused to be written letters to the
creditors OF the Citizens Company
charging that II was insolvent;
"Third-That we had prevented or
interfered with their selling Two Hun
dred Thousand dollars of bonds by
writing anonymous letters to persons
with whom the Citizens Company was
negotiating:
"Fifth--That we had gotten large
number of their customers to quit
them knd become our customers;
"Sixth-That we had induced the
Tungstoiler Company to sell Us Ak
lures as well as the Citizens Company,
thereby preventing the Citizens Com
pany from having a monopoly of the
Tungsten business;
"Seven--That our Company had fur
nished Tungsten fixtures to our GUS
toners in competition with them;
"Eight-That we had used our gas
output TO induce customers to pat
ronize our electric light department
and had thereby Injured the Citizens
Company
SO that It would seem that the
the chief allegations in the complaint
are that the Citizens Company Is los
Ing Its customers, was prevented from
selling its bondsss was not allowed to
have q monopoly of the Tungsten bu-
siness and that its credit was injured
"This would appear to be no fault
of ours. but due to the activity and
ability of our employees. the price of
our current. our good service and
the confidence of the people in us, to-
gether with our ability to meet COM
petition.
During the existence of this COM
pany we have always acted on the
square with the people and while we
are giving cheaper rates, this 10 the
tendency In electric light business and
II Is the policy OF our Company to tn
crease the consumption of current and
place 1t within the power of all to
use 1t and up-build the City.
THE real cause of grievance on
the part Of the citizens Company is
that they cannot stand legitimate com.
petition.
mo steam d. plant can compete for
long with water-power and nobody
knows II any better than the Citizens
Company.
'The charge that either this Com
pany or / or Mr.. Williams have done
anything unlawful or improper 10 un-
true, but the charge that we are out
for the business of Montgomery ~
true and we expect to get II II cheap
prices. good service and proper treat
ment will do IL,
I'VE have just started the fight
which from now on will be more in
teresting and this suit will not stop
1t.
The charge that we want a Mono
poly In Montgomery Is laughable com
ing from the Citizens Company, az
they know we could have a practical
monopoly II we were willing to pay
them the price at which they would
be willing to sell.
Mr. George Williams. when ater-
viewed said:
II have read the paper served on me
and II sounded real funny. But SER
fously the charges are so absured that
believe II Is unnecessary for me to
be stronger in my language than TO
say that the allegations are untrue so
far as am concerned"
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