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Show I LONG FIGHT j IS SETTLED Stockholders in Penn-Wyoming Penn-Wyoming Copper Company Lose Suit Cheyenne, Wyo.. March Tho long fought Penn-Wyoming Topper com-1 peny caBO, involving approximately jlil.ftOO.000, with stockholders probably prob-ably in every state of the union, was decided yesterday against the stockholders stock-holders In favor of the Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings bank of Chicago, by Federal Judge John R. Riner. The banking company, as holder of a $3,368,500 trust deed, secured by first mortgage bonds oh the vast property prop-erty of the company in Carbon county, coun-ty, entered an interplea to the suit originally brought by stockholders to have certain sales of stock set aside . because of alleged fraud. The banking bank-ing company maintained that before nn prejudicing action was taken by the copper company its positon as trustee for bond holders secured by the mortgage should be protected. Judge Riner declared the first mortgage would take precedence and could not be interfered with by the charges of fraudulent stock selling which had been made. |