Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-05-01
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, as Court of Equity.

TIME OBJECT of this suit is to procure
Il Decree for the appointment of a receive
for the Potomac Red Sand Stone Company o,
Montgomery county, Maryland, and the dis
solution Of said corporation.
The bill states:
lst. That the Potomac Red Sand Stone
Company Of Montgomery county, Maryland,
is a corporation duly organized under the
general corporation laws OF the State of Ma
| ryand with an authorized capital stock of
three hundred thousand dollars divided into
three thousand shares of the par value of one
hundred dollars each, all of which said stock
has been duly issued and paid for in full
End. That the plaintiff is the owner and
holder of two hundred and twelve shares OF
the capital stock of said company, that the
other shares of stock are owned and held BY
Henry H Dodge, Ysidora b. NJ. Dodge, Ma
thaniel Wilson and Aulick Palmer, of the
District of Columbia, C. Shirley Carter, of
Loudoun county, in the Stale of Virginia,
John A. Wills, OF the State of California
and certain other persons whose names and
residences are unknown 10 the plaintiff.
Bird. That the said company being indebt-
ed unto the said Henry H ge, Ysidora b
NJ. Dodge, Aulick Palmer, Nathaniel Wilson,
G. Shirley Carter, John A. Wills and the
plaitif in sundry sums of money, did by its
deed, dated the third day of June, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and
recorded among the Land Records of said
Montgomery county, in Liber J. A, No. 2,
folios 800 et seq. convey all its property, real
and personal, 10 the said Henry ii Dodge,
Ysidora B. NJ. Dodge, Auick Palmer, Ma
lhaniel Wilson, c. Shirley Carter, John A.
Wills and the plaintiff, by way of mortgage,
to secure said Indebtedness
4ih. That default having been made in the
payment OF said mortgage Indebtedness,
certain James B. Henderson, of said Mont
gomery county, the attorney named in said
mortgage for The purpose of executing the
power of sale therein contained, after filing
The bond required by law and duly advertis-
ing said property, did on the twentieth day
OF December in The year eighteen hundred
and ninety, sell at public sale all the real and
personal property of said company to a GER
tam George Mann, at aud for the sum of
thirty thousand nine hundred dollars, which
said sale was duly reported TO your Honora-
BILE Court, and was by an order thereof, pass
ed on the nineteenih day Of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and nnety-one, final
ly ratiti AMI confirmed
aih That the proceedings in said cause
were duly referred TO the Auditor of this
Court 10 state an account, distributing the
proceeds OF SAID sale that on the twenty
seventh day OF January, in the year eighteen
hundred ana ninety-one, the said Auditor
filed his report, which said report was finally
ratified and confirmed by your Honorable
Court on the seventeenth day of February,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety
one, and that by said report it appears that
after the payment of all the expenses OF sai1
sale and said mortgage Indebtedness, aud
interest thereon, there will remain on BE-
first day of June, in the year eighlceu hu6-
dred and ninety-one, in the hands of the said
James b. Henderson, attorney as aforesaid,
the sum OF seven thousand and thirty-five
dollar and forty cents due to the said com
pany.
9th. That the said corporation having been
organized for the purpose of operating GER
tain quarries, located on the lands Of said
company, and all the property, real and per-
sonal, belonging to said company having
been sold at said mortgage sale, the object
tor which SAID corporation was formed has
ceased to exist, il is wholly deprived of the
ability to carry out the purpose for which il
was created there is no valid reason for its
continued existence, and it should therefore
be dissolved
7h. That there is a small amount of float
ing Indebtedness of said company which
should be paid from the sum OF money, so as
aforesaid remaining in the hands OF the said
James Il Henderson, attorney us aforesaid
and the remainder thereof should be distrib-
uted among the stockholders of the said
company in proportion to their respective
holdings.
sIh The prayers OF the bill are for de-
cree dissolving the said corporation and ap-
pointing a receiver TO collect and take nos
session of all the remaining property of said
company, and to apply the same, unde, the
direction of the Court TO the payment of all
properly au,hen icated debts of the company
as yet unpaid, and to distribute the surplus
among the several stockholders of said ,om-
pany according their respective holdings, and
tor general relief.
II is thereupon, this fourth day of April,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one
by the Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as a Court OF Equity, ordered that the plain
tin, by causing copy of this order 10 be iu-.
serted in some newspaper printed and pub.
lshed in said Montgomery county, once in
each OF four successive weeks before the
fourth day of May next, give no ice to the
said absent and unknown defendants of the
object and substance of this bill, and warn
them TO appear in this Court, in person or by
solicitor, ON or before the twentieth day OF
May next, 10 show cause, If any they have.
why decree ou yht not 10 pass as prayed.
JOHN 7. VINSON,
Judge of the Circuit Court
True copy-Test;
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