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Show BRING SUIT AGAINST ROAD. Stockholders' Quarrel Likely to Be Aired in the Courts. A petition for the appointment of a receiver for certain stock of the Chicago, Chi-cago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Rail-way company and for an injunction enjoining the controlling interests of the company from carrying out a trust agreement entered into by the majority major-ity stockholders with the Central Trust company of New York was filed last week in the circuit court at Chicago. Chi-cago. The bill was filed by J. Hamilton Hamil-ton Lewis, representing Clarence H. Venner of Boston, who asserts he represents $300,000 of dissenting stock. The bill recites a history of the various times the stock was transferred trans-ferred and relates a scheme of recognition recog-nition by which it is alleged the promoters pro-moters without adding a dollar to the value of the property of the company, represented by its authorized capital stock of $75,000,000, caused to be issued and floated on the market securities aggregating over $200,000,-000. $200,000,-000. The defendants in the suit are:' The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway rail-way company, of which W. B. Leeds is president; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad company; . Rock Island company of New Jersey; Central Cen-tral Trust company of New York; William Wil-liam T. Rankin, F. P. Olcott, R. R. Cable, William H. Moore, James H. Moore, William B. Leeds, Daniel G. i ij8- ,ieid, Henry C. Frick, Marshall Field, F. D. Hine, George C. McMurty, Anson R. Flower, George S. Brewster, Ogden Mills, George T. Boggs. |