Rice v. Rockefeller

The plaintiff alleges that he owns certain shares of stock in the Standard Oil Trust, and seeks to compel the trustees of said trust to transfer to him on their books said stock, and to issue to him a certificate in his own name therefor. The defendants, in the seventh paragraph of their answer, allege “that the plaintiff is now, and for a long time past has been, engaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in oil products, in competition with the companies whose stocks are held by these defendants in trust; that in order to advance his own business, and to injure the business of…