Q. All those gentlemen, Warden, Frew and Company, and the Standard Oil Company of Pittsburg, Charles Pratt and Company of New York, are now associated with you as parties interested in the present Oil Trust?
A. They are stockholders. The property formerly owned by them was at that time purchased by the Standard Oil Company.
Q. When you speak of purchasing their interest, you do not exclude them from their interest? They united with you and remained as your associates in the business?
A. If it was not from the fact that ours was a corporation, we might call it a co-partnership.
Q. They becoming interested in yours, and you in theirs?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And you simply used your name to represent the joint ownership, as it was a corporation?
A. Yes, sir.
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