Bell Pottery suit against the trust of the American Potteries Company leads to temporary injunction

TROUBLE FOR TRUST

Temporary Injunction Against

the Combination

BELL COMPANY OF OHIO SUES

American Potteries Company and

18 Others Defendants

SEEK TO STIFLE COMPETION

Judge Smith of Cincinnati Stops the

Defendant Company From Doing

Anything Further Toward the

Consummation of Combination.

Attorney General Monnett Says

He is Ready to Proceed Against

the Trust When Furnished With

Evidence Upon Which to Base a Suit.

Publishers' Press Despatch.

Cincinnati, O., Jan. 4. — The date for hearing the injunction case brought by the Bell Pottery Company of Findlay, Ohio, against the pottery trust, is January 9. The defendants named are eighteen pottery companies in Ohio.

The petition of the Bell Company alleges that it sues on its behalf and in behalf of other companies not in the combination.

It is alleged that the American Potteries Company is chartered in New Jersey with a capital of $27,000,000, and its object is to control the entire business of the American continent. John R. Dos Passos, of New York, is manipulating the deal.

It is alleged that the real object of the trust is to stifle competition, thus injuring the plaintiffs.

Judge Smith's temporary injunction is that the defendants do nothing further toward the consummation of the trust or pooling contracts or any like contract or combination looking toward the formation of a trust or monopoly of the china pottery business now being conducted by the defendants, and especially is the Amercian Potteries Company, enjoined from consummating or further projecting its enterprise within the state of Ohio. The suit is based on the recently passed anti-trust law.

Attorney-General Monnett says he is ready to proceed against the trust as soon as those who petitioned him to act shall furnish evidence upon which to base a suit.