Show iSA SAY SCALPERS HAVE HAE NOT WON WONg g 1 a e em vw York De lS Ony r Lal Beg Bearings t tr tf f R JUBILANT T or l LEGAL ZE T BUSINESS t oer over a endor in iii th the court courtot ot of Ne Nv rk yi t ty but railroad attorneys who Ii tO tc have te ter the r ot of tIcket caping declared 1 ii t 1 Je egal both th the st to Ad and federal cr s ay te the scalpers have have no real muse for tor jubilation The he deslon decision legalizes calpin The Press report of i it i is a as follows New ew York Dee Dec e rIght to sig sign another mans nae name to a a railroad ticket which ih h has been sold Bola by b one pas passenger to another wa was affirmed by tim the I supreme curt court hero horo yesterday ThIs Thin establishes a precedent In tHe tue I exchange ot of railroad tickets The e decision was given by Justice I In the C case e of at Archibald C 1 Newburn accused ot of hain having forged to tho nae name ot of Gerge George E Whitcomb to a ticket Whitcomb was the original ot of this ticket and sold i It to The ticket was for a a r nd trip between New York and Indianapolis over the New York Cen Central tr Big Four our and Lake Shore ri rail railroads roas roads Newburn WAS arrested here hen he be signed name to the ticket Justice held that the mere salo ot of the ticket carried wih with I it the purchasers r right ht to sig sign to i It the name of the tho man from whom he bought It Their Views Differ Ticket scalpers sa say that carried to tois is its logical conclusion can I mea mean only ta that a ticket is property that te the Ia Ijas the right to dispose of I it ad and that that the rai rail railroad road must honor i it when resented by bya a third part party Railroad attorneys pint point out first that that the tho supreme cour court ot of New York Is not the hIghest cOurt ot of that state and amI that to be effective the decision must run the tho gamut of at the tho court of at appeals and of the supreme court ot of the United States In the tho second place the they Sr say the de decision te merely a definition ot of forgery under the New York statute that I it does not affect the legality ot of the ticket brokerage business but ony only defines a criminal offense under the laws ot of New York Grounds of Contest The suit suta which Lave lve been filed in the federal cour court in Utah anti and else elsewhere where to restrain brokers tom from selling scalped tickets are based on two principal Te The frt first Is that where n a man rIde rides on It scalpers ticket sold at less than the published rte rate he secures a that under the intErstate interstate commerce act no tickets can an be sold to the to tra Jing public at ath h sa than the e rte rate The second chief contention is that t ti e 0 purchaser of 1 ticket a con tract trat which specifically sets forth that th shall be and that the contract is violated In fraud party w when en Ue tIe ticket Is sold to a third Mor More SuIts Started e i ui t to r restrain the tho o f tons of ticket are eing ein filed dlly daily in St Jt T ike both by the tho federal and state In the st to district curt court yes res rest t the Sal Salt TAke Lake road started a asuit ful suit against all the brokers in Salt Lake J the he same sarn fled filed have made de in hi hitherto |