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1*500,000 SuitIs FiledWestonDispute*1t€1]IHull Brothers and Nine]Companies Are Named i Bv a Growers’ Co-opA rift between two Weston, Mo,, tobacco sales houses went into court yesterday with the fil- 1 ing of a suit for $500,000 by the Missouri District Warehousing 1 Corporation.(Named as defendants are five brothers who operate Hull Bro- i S thers tobacco warehouse, and ;nine major tobacco companies, \ which represent the bulk of the . country’s cigaret business.il In their suit, the thousand farmers who are formed into f the Missouri District co-op charge conspiracy to monopolize the to- 1 bacco business in Missouri ands11ay0f j bacco firms m Weston.ay j Kansas. 1to The suit was filed in federal ■ j in j court in Kansas City, Mo. It will ^be heard in St. Joseph. ]WESTON is the chief market lt;re i for the crop in eastern Kansas ■ d j and western Missouri, ns I According to the petition preps j pared by attorneys William G. y, ! Boatright and Elmer E. Hall, the ly Hulls and the tobacco firms have 1 signed agreements making Hulls j the exclusive agents of the to-: lt;se, The Hull brothers named in ry the petition are Owens Lee Hull, lt;;h W. R. Hull, Jr., B. P. Hull, George Z. Hull and W. B. Hull.The tobacco companies listed among the defendants: American Tobacco Company, R. J.(1]**jirethr,n-;deyn ,ds Tobacco Company, American Suppliers, Inc., Liggett j Myers Tobacco Company, Fall i City Tobacco Company, P. Loril- lt;at t a r d Company, Southwestern 1 ie i Company, the Austin Company j and the Parker Tobacco Com-e“ j pany.iic , MOST OF THOSE firms have:iinbeen buyers on the Weston market, although Lorillard hasn’t j i been represented for ten or 12 lt;A- years, in the memory of one to-i bacco man. I iComment on the suit wasj scarce this morning.T. K. Murphy, board chairmanof the Missouri District outfit, was busy on his farm at DeKalb,Mo., and couldn’t be reached.rWarren Hall of Weston, a member of the five-man board of directors of the co-op, said the decision to file suit was made by the board. He didn’t care to make any other comment, though.3~e-ig n,ie I. R, Hull, Jr., one of the defendants, said he had onlyheard about the suit in news re-ports so far, and didn’t know just what it charged or what had brought it on.
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Leavenworth Times
Leavenworth, Kansas, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1951
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