St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-16
SALTWATER BUDGET.
The Double LiaD. = Case Is
Again in the DIsUriCt
Court.
"A Rumor Anent the Resignation
OF the City's Excellent
Mayor,

The fall term of the district court con
vened at 10 a. IN. yesterday, and after
preliminary call of the calendar, the
grand jury was sworn and placed In
charge OF an officer. l.. Sargent, of this
city, was appointed foreman Of the jury.
Several cases were considered yester-
day, and the grand jury will complete
its labors today. There are 2S1 cases on
the civil calendar, more than zoe Of them
being connected with the old firms of
Seymour, Sa6ln q Co.. and the North
western Manufacturing and Car com
pany. 1t is the desire of those interest
ed in these cases to dispose of them
as soon as possible. but, on mo-
ton of II. G. Truesdale. who
represents large number of the stock
holders of Seymour, Sabin & Co., none
of them will be tried until Jan. 16, when
the contested claim cases against Sey-
mour, Sabin IL Co. will be taken up.
The cases in which MI Truesdale is
interested are the so-called double
liability cases of E. l.. Hospes ct al,
plaintiffs, VS.. The Northwestern Manu-
featuring and Car Company, defendant;
The Minnesota Thresher Company, in
tervenor. VS.. Ella p. Anderson, Harriet
T. Anderson, r. M. Anderson, David
Bronson and many others, defendants
i'm pleaded. These cases were brought
by the Minnesota Thresher company,
interyenor, against the defendants i'm
pleaded to recover from them as stock
holders of the Northwestern Manufact
uring and Car company, the amount OF
certain stocks held by them, and alleged
never to have been paid for, and the
amount SO involved is estimated atabout
Sl,500,C00, representing more than half
of the total amount of liability. The
case Of Mckusick VS.. Seymour, Sabin 4
Co. and The Minnesota ThreSher Com
pany and A. Ii. Wilder ct al, defend
ants, is suit brought to recover the
value of large amount of stock in the
Northwestern Manufacturing and Car
company, which belonged TO Seymour,
have been assigned to and distributed
among the stockholders of Seymour,
Sabin Il Co. in 1882, without paying any
thing therefor except their own stock in
the Seymour-Sabin company, which
they surrendered, ,and which the officers
of that corporation claim to have can
celed and retired. The amount involved
IN this case is in the neighbor-
hood of s1,50O,00O, the exact
sum not being known. MIR. Trues-
dale alleges that the defendants
therein represented by him are the
owners ana holders, and are liable for
more than one-half of the above amount,
il the stockholders are liable therefor at
ALL He further alleges and shows that
in the case of McKusick VS.. Seymour,
Sabin & Co., the Minnesota Thresher
Manufacturing Company, intervenor,
VS.. John f. Meagher ct al, defendants
implicated, said thresher company
claims to recover againstthe stockhold-
ers of Seymour. SabiD & Co. on their
individual liability for corporate debts
under section 3 of article 10 of the con-
stitution Of this state, imposing double
liability upon such stockholders, and
that the amount involved exceeds the
sum of 81, 900, 900, and that the defendants
represented by him are liable for
more than one-haf of the amount if the
liability is sustained. Mr.. Truesdale
has not been connected with these cases
until recently. and not being ready for
trial, they were continued. The petit
jury wiz meet next Tuesday, and Judge
Crosby expects that the criminal cases
will be tried before any of the civil cases
are taken up.
The board of county commissioners
met yesterday and spent considerable
time arranging new school districts and
examining applications for abatement of
penalties.
A report has been in circulation for
several days that Mayor E. W. Durant
would present his resignation at last
evenings meeting of the city council.
The matter came to the notice of seY-
eral business men, and a petition was
circulated yesterday asking him to re-
main in Office until his term expires
next spring. The petition was signe d
by very large humber of the business
men of the city, and Mayor Durant will
probably reconsider his intention. IL
Will be remembered that Mayor Durant