Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-08-21

turned It's attention to the said e. G.
Gordon and In him found more ready
compliance, rs II overhid the O., O. K
s. w. r.. II. Company IN its PROPOSE
ton to the city OF GAINESVILLE and failed
to attain It's end. CompIainaints be-
lieve and charge that il tried the same
argument on the said Gordon with the
opposite result
However this may be, the said Cor
don disappeared from the city of
GAINESVILLE and a number of the en-
ployes OF the said L. & N. r. r. Com
pany departed for the city Of Nashville
where, as complainaints believe and
charge, they met said Gordon and COM
pleted their arrangements with him
and returned on special train on the
L.&N. road. Complanaints charge
that said Gordon sold his right, title,
claim and interest in the l., A. & I. r.
r. Company to the said l.. Il N. X. X.
Company and undertook to deliver pos
session OF the road to it. To carry cut
this plan he undertook to resign his po-
sition as president OF said /. A. & T. r.
r. Company and to procure the entire
board of directors to resign, which he
claims to have done. But complain
ants charge that there was no legal
board OF directors, and II there was that
he did not see any, and that none OF
them did in fact resign.
Therefore the said employees OF the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, and those with them, assumed in
some way TO have become directors in
the said Indiana, Alabama & Texas
Railroad Company, to-wi' F. 2. Gra-
cey, Gracey Childers, Thos. Herndon,
I. ID. Luckett and j. T. Edwards. But
complainaints charge that they were
not legally elected directors nor either
of them, that there was no stockholders
meeting, and If there was it was not
lawfully called, nor were they in any
other way lawfully elected. Notwith-
standing this, these self-styled and
usurping directors, undertook to select
F. P. Gracey, president and Thos.
Herndon, vico-president, or the said
Gordon undertook to appoint them
president and vice-president OF the said
Indiana, Alabama d Texas Railroad
: Company, and said Gordon has sent an
order TO the defendant, w. T. Multi.
gan, secretary and treasurer of the said
|. "A. d t. r. r. Company. directing
him to turn over the said Indiana, Ala
bama & Texas Railroad Company and
its affairs to the said f. p. Gracey and
the others above mentioned, and com.
! plainaints charge that he will do SO I'm.
less restrained by the injunction of your
Honors' Court.
/ If the said Gracey and his associates
shall obtain possession of said road
complainaints and the citizens of Clarks
vile and the country through which j
passes will suffer great injury, and i
, suffered to remain in their hands ire
parable injury. They will not Oh ly
convert property that rightfully belong,
to these complainaints, as your Honor
:, will see from the foregoing statements
but they charge that said Gracey, Hern
don and the others are acting for anC
e with the Louisville and Nashville Rail
!. road Company, and will use it to create
!, and maintain monopoly of the trans
portation of the town of GAINESVILLE il
: the hands OF the l.. & N. r. II. Compa
r ny, and prevent competing and indie
!. pendent line of road which your Homo
. will see they are clearly entitled to, a
we'll in justice and right as sound pub
lie policy.
i The premises considered, complain
= aints pray that the parties named a
' such in the caption be made defendant
\ to this bill; that spa. and copy issue a
l to the resident defendants and publica
It ton be made for the non-residents &C
: cording to the usual practice of tn
II court, to cause them to appear and an
d swer the same; they that answer full,
If but not on oath which is waived.
l. That your Honor grant to complain
$ ants the States most gracious writ o
d injunction, enjoining the defendants
n E. G. Gordon, president, w. S. Cor
l. don, vice-president, and w. T. Null
g gan, secretary and treasurer of the In
81 diana, Alabama & Texas Railroad Com
If pany, their agents and attorneys fror
J. turning the same or its effects or affair
over to the said F. p. Gracey, Tho
> Herndon, T. D. Luckett, j. T. Ed
}. wards and Gracey Childers, or either c
[. any of them, or to the Louisville
lY Nashville Railroad Company, or to an
10 other person or persons, and enjoinin
es the said F. p Gracey, Those Herndor
III T. d. Luckett, Gracey Childers and
lie I. Edwards, each and all OF them fror
v acting or assuming to act as directors {
a. the Indiana, Alabama & Texas Railroa
ct Com pany, or as president or vice pres
b. dent of the same.
o. That your honor be pleased to orde
S. an account to be taken and stated wit
lis said E. G. Gordon, as president of ii
ID Indiana, Alabama & Texas Railroa
n. Company, showing what amounts
D., money have comeinto his hands as pre-
n ident of said company, from the sui
IN scriptions to the bonds OF the company
!" from sales of the bonds OF the compan
lis and from subscriptions to the capt
IN stock Of the company, if anything hi
a been received from that source, ali
r. what disposition he has made of sal
to moneys, and what OF the bonds place
81 in his hands, as such president, and a
n so how much money has been paid OF
It, upon the construction of said line
as DAD from GAINESVILLE to Princeton, an
or upon what account it has been pail
A. and what has been the total cost of sal