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Show NAME TAMMANY LEADER IN SUIT NEW YORK, Dec 5. Charles - E. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, was named as a co-defendant in a civil suit for 10, 000, COO damages brought in the supreme court today by I.ouis Hartog, a manufacturer of mait products, against the Corn Products Tteiinins company and others, for alleged bietu-h of contract. The complaint stales lhat- Mr. Murphy possessed and exercised, as leader of Tammany 3 la II, "great" political influence, power and authority," and, with the other defendants, "conspired to ruin the plaintiff." ' Mr. Murphy, according to the plaintiff, agreed to purchase $Jia,noo worth of stock in a refinery corporation, and actually actu-ally paid half the purchase price, but declined de-clined to deliver the rest. Hartog also asserts it was agreed that lie was to advance SloO.nrii) as working capital and Murphy ?."0,000. Tho plain t i fY declares I that his business has been ruined because the alleged agreement was- not carried out. |