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Show AGREEMENT DENIED BY WOOLLEY, ECCLES Another Angle Furnished in West Cache Sugar Case Regardine; a statement published In The Tflrjmm Kriday referrlna; to the dismissal of the cane of the Went Cache rluicar company against J. A. Hendrickson and Lorensn N. Htohl, Herbert R. MacMlllan. counsel fop K. R. Woolley and the David Kcclcs company com-pany of Kdrn, haa issued the follow-Inn follow-Inn statement denying hla client entered en-tered Into any agreement with the de. fendants dismissing- the case: 'It la not true that Krnest R. Wrx.l-ley Wrx.l-ley ever entered Into a contract with Mr. Hendrtckaon exonerating htm or agreeing to a settlement of thin -ase. Tho negotiations for the settlement of the cjf were Initiated by, the defendant! defend-ant! after Mr. Woolley had disposed of all of Ms Interest In the West Cache tjujrar company, and consequently conse-quently had lout all control over tli prosecution of the cfe. Mr. Woolley ua never consulted respecting tile settlement and. In fact, was in Chicago Chi-cago at the time the settlement wis consummated and knew nothing . f it until his return to t'tah. . Ms attorney for the David llci-le. company, which acquired Mr. V'. alley's al-ley's stock, I personally participated in all of the negotiations until till terms were agreed upon, anil at no t:mewas any prnposul or even hint I ever made ly any one Involving rT I exoneration of the defendants. Tli;s was an afterthought which was written writ-ten Into the agreement evidencing the settlement, and which was drawn tip after I had left the state on a trip to Ht. Loula. "From the time Judgment- was obtained. ob-tained. Mr. Woolley, o long as he controlled the West Cach Sugar company, com-pany, would not even entertain a proposition for settlement, and It should be distinctly understood that neither he nor any company with which he la interested ever entered into or authorised a contract providing provid-ing for a compromise of the litigation or an exoneration of the defendants." |