Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-14
Supreme Court Rules That
These, Like Labor, Are
Not Affected.
BANK RECEIVER MUST
PAY CREDITOR $4,000
Insurance Company Wins on C0ntem-
ton That Money Was Loaned
Through Misrepresentation by
Bankers.

Little Rock, July 13-That laund-
ries or other enterprises rendering
service to the public, like labor, do
not come under the Arkansas anti
trust law, is the substance of Q deci-
sion rendered by the supreme court
today in the case of the state against
four Little Rock laundries in which
the attorney general, on behalf OF the
state asked for several million dollars
from the several laundries and asked
further that their right to do business
in the state be revoked on the
grounds that they We're in a pool or
combination to control the prices OF
laundry, and therefore were violating
the antitrust laws.
1t was contended that the laundries
had an agreement to fix the price
thereby violating the antitrust laws
which make it unlawful for anyone to
enter into or become member of or
any party to any pool, contract or
combination t fix the price limit in
the state or elsewhere, the amount or
quantity of any article of manufac-
ture. mechanism, merchandise, COM
of mining or any article or thing
whatsoever.
1t was the contention of the state
that laundrying was included in the
word commodity, as used in the anti
trust law. This contention was not
sustained by either the lower court or
the supreme court. The supreme court
held that the Legislature had not in
cluded in the terms of the ANTITRUST
law agreements affecting labor or per-
Torrance of service; and that laund-
ries ranked under these heads.
Reduces Excessive Judgment.
Reducing the verdict from $4,000
to $4,000, the supreme court this
morning sustained the cerdict of the
Monroe circuit court in giving J. H
Kendall, formerly an Iron Mountain
engineer damages against the Iron
Mountain and the Cotton Belt rail
ways.
Kendall was conductor on an Iron
Mountain train which was wrecked in
collision with Cotton Belt freight
train at Clarendon. The Monroe cir
cult court awarded him $1,000 on his
suit for damages for personal injur'
les. The supreme court held the
amount was excessive, and reduced il
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Bank Must Pay Depositors.
The Judgment of the Pulaski chan
Gerry court in the case of the 1nterna
tional Life Insurance company agains
George Vaughan, receiver for the de-
funct Valley Savings Bank of Argenta
was reversed and a finding made tina
Abe company should get verdict fol
$4,000 against the bank receiver.
The insurance company alleged tina
it had certificates of deposit represent
| ing $4,000 in the bank shortly before
it was closed and that on the misrep
resentation of w. w. Hurst, the banl
president, it had loaned an additional
$4,000. The loan was made within ;
| week before the bank was closed. The
complaint alleged that the loan wa.
made on the representation that thu
bank was solvent, but that it needed
cash to meet withdrawal of $4,000
AS security for the certificates of de-
post and the $4,000 loan the company
took a note for $4,000.
After the bank failed the company
sued for the $4,000. The chancerl
court ruled that the claim for the
| $4,000 was valid, but the one for the
other $4,000 was not. The supreme
court found that the claim for the en-
tire amount was valid and reversed
the chaancery courts ruling.
Bridge Case Decided.
Another suit having possible bear
| ing on Little Rock situation was
| that of I. H. Nakdimen against thu
Fort Smith and Van Buren, bridge
district. The bridge district commits
sioners entered into contract will
the Fort Smith street car company al
lowing the company the free use o
a bridge for period of forty-fiv'
years on the condition that scent in
tercity fares be given. Nakdimel
sued the commissioners, holding tina
they did not have this power. The Sc
bastian chancery court held that tn
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