Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — ATTORNEY GENERAL STOPS FARM COMBINE [ARTICLE]

ATTORNEY GENERAL STOPS FARM COMBINE

Quo Warranto Proceeding* t* Prevent New Jersey Corporation Do* ing Business in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, special: Quo warranto proceedings were brought la the circuit court by Attorney General Sheets to prevent the American farm Company, incorporated under the laws of Now Jersey, from doing business in Ohio. The company is Incorporated with 91,000,000 capital and sets up as its objects the purchase and control of mills and grain elevators and rars and all means of transportation for farm products. The petition in quo warranto attacks the corporation on the ground that its intention is to monopolize the agriculural interests of the state and that it is, therefore, in contravention of the anti-trust law. The petition also describes the company as a corporate myth and wholly insolvent. In the interrogatory the attorney general asks that the president of the company be made to tell more of tho Sid Edward Woolet who is cited in tho company’s circulars as “the auditor of England” and who is supposed to be connected with the corporation.