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 SHAWNEE COMPRESS CO. . ANDERSON. 43! 209 U.S. Opinion of ,he Court. within fifty miles of any plant 'operated by the" Gulf Com- pany, and that the Shawnee Company "agrees and pledges" to the Gulf Company "its good will, moral and legal support, and that it, individually and collectively, will render the 'Gul/Company' every assistance in discouraging unreasonable and unnecessary competition." And from the evidence the court deduces the following conclusions (p. 236): "It further appears from the evidence at the trial that C. C. Hanson is the president of both the Atlanta Compress Company and the Gulf Compress Company, being a stock- holder in each, and is the one who negotiated the lease in ques- tion. That the Atlanta Compress Company operates in the States of Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and was organized and is owned and controlled solely by the carriers for their benefit. That the board of directors and stockholders of said corporation are composed entirely of railroad officials. That the Atlanta Company controls the operation of twenty-five plants. That the Gulf Compress Company is a close corpora- tion, chartered in Mobile, :labarea, and operating in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkan- sas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, and controlling the operation of twenty-seven compresses in those States, located at various point, therein. That none of the Gulf Company's plants and the Atlanta Company's compresses arc operated at the same points. "It is further disclosed by the evidence that the capital stock of the Gulf Company, as originally ic)rporat(,d, was $25,000.00, but that it has, within the pr:t year. been increased to one million dollars, of which $600,000.00 is trcxury stock. That its field of operation has beer rapidly extended from Alabama to all the cotton-growing territory; that it is at the present time engaged in the purchase or leasing of comprees at various points, and, as testified to by its president, is 'pre- pared to buy or lease, whichever proposition suits us best.' It appears from the evidence that negotiations conducted by Mr. Hanson with Stubbs and Beatty .[or the lease of the Shaw:

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