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Show 0IL TUT IS OUSTED i FROM TENNESSEE I Decision of State Supreme Court Bars Joint D.'s Company: Appeal Ap-peal Will Be Taken. XASHVJLLIi. Tcnn.. April 11. By tho .judgment of the Supreme. Court of, Tennessee in an opinion delivered today : by Justice Xoill. the Standard Oil coin-' coin-' pany is ousted from Tennessee for the acts of this company at Gallatin in re-; re-; straining trade. i By the judgment of the Supreme Court tho Standard Oil company can only engage in interstate commerce as fas as Tennessee is concerned and the court holds in affirming tho decision of Chancellor J. W. Stout in Gallatin, that in the trial of the case at Gallatin, the Standard Oil company did violate' the provisions of section 'l of the acts of J 00;;, chapter 110. and the punishment imposed in section 2 of that act should be imposed, viz.: That the Standard Jie denied the right to do business in this State. Tho counsel' for the company com-pany have taken an appeal to the Supreme Su-preme Court of the United States. |