The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-18
Plaintiffs in Overall Case
Finish Their Side i'm
Rutland Hearing
DEFENDANTS WILL
BE HEARD MONDAY
Asked for More Time, but Special
Master Declined to Grant It-Inter-
esting Correspondence Between De
PENDANTS and Statesmen Shown

After arguments Yesterday afternoon
as TO when the hearing should he re-
sumed in Rutland in the ease of the
Hooker. Corser & Mitchell Co. of Brat
tieborO against James F. Hooker. w.
II. Corser and c. d. Whitaker Of
Schenectady, y. ", Special Master NJ.
c. Wehber ruled that counsel should
be ready to 60 on with the case next
Monday morning at 10 o clock
Practically all of the orator 5 case
was in when adjournment was taken
at i 0 clock yesterday. II. G. & F. r.
Barber thought it would be a hard
ship to require them to be ready to
put in the defendants side of the
ease Monday and offered several rea-
sons in support of their claim but rho
master thought there should be no de-
lay.
The hearing is for the final assess
ment Of damages resulting from a con
spiracy by the defendants to withdraw
from the Brattlchoro firm and estab-
liSh themselves in a similar business in
Schenectady and get business from the
orators customers. hiring the orators :
statesmen and operating force, which
they did.
Attorney Clarke c. Fits. as counsel
for the orator company, showed that
the defendants, Hooker, Corser and
Whitaker, opened 4 plant in Schenec-
tady starting the manufacture of
goods in January, 1910. and that the
company in Schenectady did business
| annually amounting to between S165.-
600 to $20Q,000. or less than half Of
the business done by the Brattlcboro
concern.
The Mohawk company. il appears.
was not successful and at the present
| time is iii the hands of a receiver.
while one of the defendants, ". H..
t'orser, is in bankruptcy. The papers
| IN the receivership case show that the
| concern lost about $l50.O00 in five
| wears.
The testimony offered by the orator
| tends TO show that from SO to ST per
| cent Of the business of tha NTobawE
company was done with former custom
ers Of the Brattleboro concern and the
claim of the latter company is that
| TINS has detraeted Just so much from
Its profits and its damages are set mt
over $125.0O0.
| Considerable evidence in tho way
OF letters was introduced during the
| nearing for the purpose of showing
now tho Schenectady company operat-
cd IN order to get business away from
/ the BrattleboTo concern. These letters
included letters to customers in which
the defendants said they intended 70
make the same kind of goods that the
Brattleboro firm was making. Some of
their goods We're numbered with the
numbers that the Brattleboro concern
used ON the same line. Included in
the sum which is claimed as DAMAGES
| ny the orator company is the future
damage TO the company by way of lost
business which can never be reeained
| y question was raised Yesterday af
ternoon over the bill of a Springfield
/ Mass. lawyer, Mr.. Brooks. who was
paid $1,000 for legal advice TO the con
eern before the rupture The courts
held that he really advised the defend
ants personally and the only service
Tor which the company could be held
financially responsible was the drawing
up OF the constitution and bylaws Of
tho company. and now the question is
as to the price of make of such
documents. Attorney General Barber
stated that if n lawyer of Mr.. Brooks :
standing was engaged for such a pnr-
pose those engaging him should expect
to have to pay his price. Mr.. Fits
thought a fair price would he $25.