Stockholder Blocks Seattle-Lake Shore Rail Payments
A Minnesota stockholder successfully secured an injunction against the Northern Pacific, complicating the finances of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad.
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In the United States court this afternoon, Col. E. B. S. A. filed an injunction on behalf of P. G. Winston, of Minneapolis, a Northern Pacific railroad stockholder, restraining that road from paying any interest or money on account of the sinking fund created by the purchase of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad. A temporary restraining order, returnable August 7, was granted by Judge Hanford. Col. Eber has been at work on the restraining order for several days. Winston contends that the purchase of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern was an improper diversion of the Northern Pacific's funds.
“My client contends that the purchase of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern was an improper diversion of the Northern Pacific's funds.”
This reflects the long history of Seattle's railroad-dominated economy, where distant shareholders could halt local infrastructure projects, much like contemporary debates over corporate control and local public resource management.
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