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Show ONION PACIFIC GETS DECISION I H Eighty Million Dollars Extra H Dividend to Be Paid to Com- H mon Shareholders. SECOND RULING MADE I Payment Ordered Today on Baltimore and Ohio Stock by Executive Com- I mittee. New York, July 16. Justice Page or the state supreme court todav ren dered a decision in faor of the Un- tor. Pacific Railroad company in a jH suit brought by the so-called McCad- 'H don preferred stockholders who sought to enjoin the railroad company iH rrom paying 80,000.000 AS AN EX- 9H TRA DIVIDEND only, to commoa shareholders H A similar decision in an action . rought against the company for the same purpose by the Equitable Life flH Assunnce society was recently ren- fll dered by the state court of. appeaJs M The Lnion Pacific executive com mittee ordered payment today of tb B extra nividend on the common stock iH cn July 20. The dividend consists IV of $1L' par value Baltimore & Obic flH nreferred stock. $22. 50 Baltimore & I Ohio common and $3 cash. Payment AH I of this extra dividend was ordered flH in January but was held up by the wBt litigation. BBS . IHH |