Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
FOUND A LANDLORD.
Tenants of the Library Hall Building
at Last Have a Chance
TO PAY UP ALL THEIR BACK RENT.
The Court Decides It Shall Be Turned Over
to Mr.. Stevenson,
TO PAY OFF INTEREST LONG SINCE DUE

Another decision was rendered yesterday
| in the Library Hall case, in the litigation
between the Hall Company ard the Pitts
burg Library Association over the Library
Hall property. Both sides now claim they
have thereby gained a point. Several
months ago each of these bodies notified the
tenants of the building not to pay the rental
to the other. The tenants are Joseph Horne
& Co: and R. NJ. Gulick & Go. In the face
of these notifications the tenants paid to
neither company nor association, and the
rent is now far in arrears. Consequently
the interest on the mortgage has been un-
paid.
Attorney A. NJ. Neeper represented the
Library Association, and P. c. Knox, the
Mercantile Library Hall Company. After
the arguments, Judge Stowe made the fol-
lowing order:
And now, september.25, by agreement of
parties the Court do order that :he rents
now unpaid by the tenants, parties to the
litigation, shall forthwith be paid by said
tenants to Frank L. Stevenson, and by him
at once applied to the payment of the inter-
est on the encum branceS upon the property
already due or to fall due hereafter, subject
to the further order of this court. This or
der is made without prejudice to the rights
of the respective parties.
CLAIMS OF BOTH SIDES.
Mr.. Neeper said last night that the
Library Association claims it was the inten-
tion of the Hall Company to allow the in
terest on the mortgages to be defaulted, and
thus bring about a foreclosure. In that
event the people who are DESTROYS of getting
control of the property and crowding out
the library, for the purpose OF securing
ground floor theater, would be able to do so.
In the light of these facts Mr.. Neeper con-
siders that the order of the Court requiring
the payment of the interest, is in the nature
of victory for the Library Association.
Treasurer f. L. Stephenson was seen last
night and said: ''This order is most decid-
edly a victory for the Mercantile Library
Hall Company. Both bodies have contend
ed for certain rights, among which was the
collecting of the rents, and,the fact that the
Court, on hearing the arguments, has
ordered the Treasurer of the Hall Company
to assume that power, is certainly proof
that we were in the right"
Chow about the allegation that it is or
was the desire of the Hall Company to have
the mortgage foreclosed and the building
disposed off" was asked.
@There is nothing in it-nothing what
ever"
A VICTORY FOR THE COMPANY.
R. NJ. Gulick said the order was victory
for the company, as Its treasurer had been
empowered to collect the rents, and that he
was very glad someone had been appointed
for that purpose, as he did not like to be In
arrears, but for long time no rent could be
paid, because it could not be definitely de-
termined who had the right to receive it.
He said he believed that every stockholder
and member of the Mercantile Company
had the best interests of the property at
heart, and would like to see it placed in the
best possible shape. The ground floor
theater project, he said, had not been aban-
doned, but was still situated considerable
distance in the future.