Arizona republican., 1912-07-10
CORPORATION
 DIFFERENCES
Stockholders of the Ameri- can Differential Axle Go. Proceed to Election of Directors and Transaction of Other Business

Arizona being the birthplace of many corporations. it is the meeting place. of hundreds of boards of di- lectOrs and lists of stockholders in person or by proxy, generally by proxy, of which the public at large never hears But that there was d meeting of the directors of the Amer ican Differential Axle company yes tcrday which was announced in a rather striking manner in Justice Johnstone's court where the leader of the minority stockholders. O. NJ. Payne had caused Thomas Box of New York. the promoter of the com pany and the controller of the ma jority of the stock. to be haled for an assault.
 The testimony at the trial included some glimpses of the affairs of the company. It appeared that there were none of the stockholders of the company present yesterday except Mir Box and MT Payne. The meeting took place in the office of Walter NiIligan in the National Bank of Ar- zona building MT Milligan is an agent of the company.
 Mir Box had just received tele- gram from New York requesting the election of two men as members of the directory He showed the tele- gram to Mr. Payne who said he had no objection to their election but he added that he wanted men who would see that there was no more of this monkey business with the affairs of the company.
 Since Mir Box had been solely di- recting those affairs he regarded that remark as to some extent. personal and he remarked in an impersonal way that any man who said that he had acted dishonestly was a liar.
 Mir Payne asked Mir. Box if he would go down to the street and say that. MT Box replied that he would and he asked in turn whether MT Payne would go down to the street to hear him say it. The invitation being mutual both started toward the door, MT. Box in front What hap pened after that constituted the sub iect of controversy.
 MT. Payne said that Mir. Box in- stead of going out of the door ob- structed the exit and slammed away at him three times. He showed some slight scratches on the right side of his face which he said was the re- suit of the blows Then. he said in self defense he struck MT. Box once.
 Mir Box took the stand and said that for a long time MT. Payne as leader of the minority had been an tagonistic to him, had insulted him on various occasions once in the presence of a lady and had occasion ed him eleven trips across the con- tinent He had also been the means of getting something like three and q half million shares of the stock away from him.
 As to the immediate contention he said that he started out of the door of MT. Milligan's office on the invi- tation of MT. Payne and when near the door the latter struck him. He threw his arm up and outward and his open hand had probably struck the face of MT. Payne.
 This testimony was corroborated by Mir Mlligan and in part, by Attorney I-aney whose office was adjoining though the latter had not seen the actual encounter Finally the whole matter was simmered down to the question whether Mir. Box had struck Mir. Payne at all or whether the con tact of his open hand with MT. Payne's face was not largely acci- dental Mr. Box said that he could not have struck Payne in the posi- ton in which both were standing. By this time both gentlemen were stand ing side by side in the court room and in apparent good humOr each was trying to show the court that