The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-25
A RECEIVER DENIED.
First Skirmish in the Haley
Hill Litigation.
DEFENDANT SCORES A POINT.
4 Woman Yields to Prisons Terrors-
Suit for Heavy Damages for
siander-The Blotter.

The first engagement in the Haley-Hill
litigation over the affairs of the HALEY
Grocery Company yesterday resulted in a
victory for the defendant Judge Lichten-
berg refusing Haiey's petition to have the
business placed in the hands of receiver.
At the hearing yesterday l.. C. Gilman
appeared for the plaintiff and Fred Baus-
man for the defendant, Mr. Bausman
read the affidavit of Joseph B. Hill. n.
K. Ward. Fred Bausman, z. o. Graves
and X. r. Spencer, concerning the trans
fer OF Haley's stock to Hill and Haiev's
withdrawal from the company, the sub
stance of which has already appeared in
the PosT-lsTELLIGESoER in Mr. Hills yer.
sicn of the affair
Mr.. Gilman read the affidavit of John
Haley. the plaintiff. It denied that Haley
had ever taken any goods or money from
the store except his salary and an over
draft of 1880 on his salary account, and
Get out that ali the charges of embezzle-
ment or theft were false. Mr.. Bausman
had come 20 the store one evening and
gone TO the Office. and shortly afterward
Ward. the bookkeeper had notified Haley
that he was wanted in the office When
he went there Bausman told him there
was shortage and accused him of theft.
He further charged him with taking gro
ceres from the store to give to woman
with whom he was criminally intimate
Hill then told him that it was no use to
waste time; that his (Haley's) resignation
as vice president OF the company was
written up and that If he didn't sign il he
(Hiln. holding the majority of the stock.
would vote him out and make public the
fact that he was a thief 20 that his wife
and children would be disgraced.
The affidavit states further that HALEY
was 50 unnervcd and shocked by the
charges that he tainted and remained in
an unconscious and semi-conscious condi-
ton for twenty minutes or half an hour.
When he recovered partially Hill gave him
large quantities of whisky to drink. While
he was still weak and dazed from the
effects of this he signed q contract to make
over his stock and his resignation as vice
president. Upon leaving the store he re-
marked
II will take this 81. 500 now, but will
get back from you the 900 that you have
robbed me of"
Being only a salesman as far as the bus
ness of the house was concerned. and not
acquainted with the financial part, he did
not know how to proceed. He stayed a
week in the store a. a clerk, undecided
what to do, gradually recognizing how
weak and foolish he had been in allowing
himself to be intimidated. When he left
the store he was confined to his home by
sickness for eleven days. When he recov-
cred sufficiently to be out he at once sought
legal advice and began suit.
Mr.. Gilman demanded first to have a
receiver appointed for the entire stock Of
the company and then for the shares
which were held by Haley. After argu-
ment at some length by the attorneys for
both sides Judge Lichtenberg refused 70
appoint receiver for any Of the stock
He granted, however. a temporary iniunc-
tion TO restrain Hill from disposing of any
of the stock in controversy.