Judge ruled in the Bell Pottery case against forming a pottery trust by combining 18 potteries

Against the Pottery Trust.

Cincinnati, O., Jan. 4. — Judge Samuel Smith of the common pleas court to-day decided in the case of the Bell Pottery company of Findlay, O., against 18 pottery companies, several of which are in Cincinnati, that the defendants "must desist or refrain from making or further consummating or performing the trust or pooling contract mentioned in the plea."

The plaintiffs allege that the pottery interests of the entire country were recently incorporated in New Jersey as the American Potteries company, with $27,000,000 capital stock, and that it is intended to turn all the properties over to John R. Dos Passos, a lawyer of New York city.