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312 William H. Swanson, Direct Examination.
branches? What became of them? A. I had no Philadelphia branch.
Q. What became of your Omaha and St. Louis branches and your Kansas City branch? You had a branch there, did you not? A. I had a branch there, yes, sir, but that Mr. Dyer compelled me to close before the license agreement at all was considered. Mr. Dyer ordered me to close the Kansas City, by means of a letter, owing to the fact, as he stated, that I had not bought the necessary quantity of films. I thereupon sent Mr. Dyer all of the receipted bills of the amount of film required according to the contract, and he wrote back and said — Mr. Scull wrote back and said that notwithstanding that I had sent these bills, that they herewith enclosed them. It did not make any difference whether I bought that amount or not. Close it up anyway.
Q. Was that after the Patents Company was formed? A. No, that was prior to the Patents Company formation. Just a few months. Two or three months before that.
Mr. Caldwell: That preceding question is objected to on the ground that it gives the contents of a letter which is not produced.
The Witness: The letters were produced in testimony before the courts. That is the reason I cannot produce them.
Mr. Grosvenor: We will make an effort to get it later.
The Witness: The Omaha office I closed in 1910, as I could not make it pay at all. St. Louis I endeavored to combine with others, in order to continue the business, which we did, under what is known as the Swanson-Crawford Film Company, and I afterwards sold my interest in that. The New Orleans office I closed entirely.
Q. What had been a profitable business, bringing you more than $100,000 a year prior to the cancellation of your license, dwindled to nothing? A. Practically so, yes, sir.
Q. And had your business been a constantly growing business before the cancellation of the license? A. One