Page:Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Volume 3.djvu/609

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602 FEDEBAIi BEPOBTEB. �ing or ejecting any of its express matter or messengers from the depôts, cars, and Unes of said defendant, and from refus- ing to receive and transport over its lines of railway, express matter and messengers of the said Adams Express Company; and from interfering with or disturbing the business of the said Adams Express Company, or its present relations in ref- erence thereto with the said defendant, or preventing the transaction of its business over the lines of the defendant on the same terms and conditions as are or may be permitted to any other express company or individual for similar business ; nor to charge for the same in excess of what is reasonable compensation, with liberty to the parties to make such further application herein to the court as they may be advised is nec- essary to fix what is and shall be a reasonable compensation, or for any other matter growing out of the case. In the event of a dispute between the parties, pending the preparation of this cause, as to what is reasonable compensation for the services performed by the defendant company for complain- ant, such difference shall be referred to the court, after due notice, and, pending such reference, the complainant shall not be disturbed by the defendant company in the transaction of express busines over its lines upon reasonable terms as to compensation and otherwise. This order shall not conclude either party upon the final hearing as to any question upon the merits, which may be disclosed by the pleadings or the testimony, its object being only to preserve the present siatos of the parties until the case is prepared for decree." �On the fifteenth of July the complainant filed the afEdavits of L. C. Weir, and upon it moved for an order against the defendant, and also Valentine W. Eose, its superintendent of express, A. C. Cowk, one of its passenger train conduetors. Oscar Board, its agent at New Albany, and Henry Eose, its local express agent at the eity of New Albany, to show cause why they should not be attached for eontempt of the forego- ing injunction order. �The affidavit set forth, among other things, the particulars of the tender of the safe and package chest of the Adams Express Company to Valentine Eose, the defendant's super- ����