Show IMPORTANT CASE ARVED rockefeller Defon darit in it ft suit involving I v st lou louis 9 jan 27 7 today beday in the united states court of 0 appeals judges caldell of 0 Ark arkansas arams thayer of 0 st lous and sanborn ot of minnesota sitting arguments wele besun begun in the case in some respect i that hils has ever been belore before the conits of 0 this coun country try J D 1 rockefeller president of 0 ti alie e st standard rid ral oil company Is 19 the dei fe C the amount involved Is approximately pro r at the trial of the case on its merits in the united states circuit court sitting at duluth gllnn before judge wrier and a jury a L ver verdict allot vinas n riven given for or the plaintiff alfred merrill Merrl tt jr tor for mr air rockefellers Rocher Rocke ellera fellers interests are represented by mr file george W V murray of new kew york and associates thi the plaintiff Is represented by A A harris of 0 duluth and associates in august IMS 1393 tho the merritts Merrl tH who had the controlling interest in pome iron aron mines in st bouli county 3 glnn alicd at lOOt OOOO went nto into a deu deal with rockefeller nock eteller A new coul company pally m waa formed known as the la lake kc consolidated mining alining 2 company ant and the alio merritt 9 received stock in the now new company pan in exchange for or their interests ih morritt Merrl tt in his original hil 1111 charlea chang that he and his partners part nera inveigled into the deal by the fraudulent Pen of rockefeller us B to the thO value of the properties he controlled ile H al leres lepes that Rocke riller represented his m mines ines to be in a prosperous dividend balsin pa in ir condition whereas the he contrary lay was t the he case cac that while ivalle rockefeller onried to a of on the I 1 merritt Merrl tt properties their are arc really milly worth between 12 and and that they thay subsequent BUb ally dincov bild acied that while they iced meldee melded of I 1 their interests for in the consolidated company rockefeller retained congo for hll his palt pail bonds secured by first mortgage bonds to the value of 34 on tile tho properties to which the stock held by the Il erritts were subject |