[Newspaper]
Publication: The Trenton Evening Times
Trenton, NJ, United States
vol. 15, no. 5781, p. 1, col. 2
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.
