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Show West Cache Suit J May Be Dismissed I r j SALT LAKE, Tec. 9. If the pro-pram pro-pram adopted yesterday Is completed, one of tho most important civil suits ever tried In Utah will be terminated I without decision by tho supreme-court supreme-court and through this action Lor-i'nr.o Lor-i'nr.o N Stohl and John A Hendrick-I Hendrick-I son will be relieved of a judgment I rendered against them for $160,850 I in the suit of the west Cache Sugar company brought to recover alleged i secret promotion profits. The board of directors of the West rhe Sugar company yesterday dl-rected dl-rected their president, David A. West, and their secretary, M T. Fox. to take i c;.s at oiK-e to hive the suit dismissed dismiss-ed The directors further Ih the res-1 ' olutlon of Instruction, stated their hc-I hc-I . f that a grOBS Injustice had been done Mr stohl and Mr Hendrlckson In the bringing of the suit. The res-! res-! olution further expressed the belief , that both men were guiltless of the charges made In the action, and that dismissal of the case would be the only fair action for the directors to lake President West said Inst night that this action had been taken. He said! that it was done on the reeuest of tho! stockholders. Th Hccles Interests of gde-n. own approximately 93 per cent I of the stock in the company. The history of the case goes back to June. 1917, when -the original complaint against Hendrlckson and St h 1 was I filed by the V est Cache Sugar com ! Pany Ernest R. Wool Icy was president presi-dent of the company at that time i-astl night Roland i: Woolle, a brother.! In the absence from the clt of the I former president, declined to discuesl I the matter beyond stating that he knew such a meeting had been hclu and that, as a director, he had declined! j to take part In the proceedings, in - stead sending his resignation as a dl- I rector to take effect immediately. |