The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-10-24
COMMISSIONERS SALEOF THE MA
RIETTA q NORTH GEORGIA
RAILWAY.
RAILWAY,

RAILWAY.
Under and by virtue OF Decree Of Foreclosure |
and Sale rendered by the Circuit Court of the |
United States for the Northern District of Georgia
on the 18th day of May, 1885, and thereafter |
by the Circuit Court OF the United States for the
Eastern District of Tennessee, Northern Division,
and the Circuit Court of the United States |
for the Western District of North Carolina, in |
equity causes wherein the Central Trust
Company of New York and the Boston Safe |
Deposit Trust Company, are compliments,
and Marietta & North Georgia Railway Com
sodated causes Nos. $50 and All lin the Circuit
Court of the United States for the Northern
decree passed by the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Northern District OF Georgia on the
| Goth day of June, 1898, and ratified and adopted
by the aforesaid Circuit Courts of the United
States for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and
Western District of North Carolina; and also by
virtue of DEGREES of the Circuit Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of Tennes'
| see, Northern Division, as OF 18th day OF May,
| 1895, which was ratified and adopted by the Cir
cult Court of the United States for the Northern
District of Georgia by its decree OF 4th June, 1895,
and which said last referred to decree was after
wards ratified and adopted by said Circuit Court
of the United States for the Eastern District
of Tennessee, Northern Division, and also
I by virtue of decree of the circuit court of the
United States for the northern district of Ge0r-
gia, made on the 10th day OF October, 1895, which
said last mentioned decree was ratified and adopt
ed by DEGREES OF the circuit court OF the United
States for the eastern district of Tennessee north
ern division, and by the circuit court of the
| United States for the western district OF North
| Carolina we, Robert j. Lowry, aud IL. II, Taylor,
the undersigned special commissioners, shall pro-
coed to offer at public sale to the highest bidder
or bidders, ali and singular the corporate prop
! erty and franchises of said Marietta North
| Georgia Railway Company, the line OF railway ex-
| tending from the town of Marietta, in Cobb Coun-
ty Georgia. through the counties of Cobb, Cherokee.
| Pickens, Gilmer and Fannin to the town Of Blue
| Ridge, in Fannin county, Georgia, and thence on
to the city of Knoxville, in Knox county, Tennes-
see, through the counties t-e2, oefhg arraf arg
| roe, Loudon, Blount apSfrom Marietta t9 Knox.
v1tfe, being standard guage road, aEn about
| 1851 miles lying in the State of Georgia a I'D about
l09.Sl miles lying in the State of Tennessee; and
also the further line of said railroad, being a mar
| row guage road, extending from the town of Blue
Ridge, in Fannin county, Georgia, to Murphy, in
| Cherokee county, North Carolina, distance OF
about % miles, there being about 12.51 miles in
the State Of Georgia of this narrow guage road,
and about 1914 miles in the State of North Caro-
lima; together with all and singular the property
and estate OF said company OF every kind, real,
personal or' mixed, whether within outside the
location of said railway and however acquired
and all other lands, station houses, bridges, build
ings, fixtures and the equipment, rolling stock
machinery, tools, implements and furniture what
ever connected with or belonging to the said line
of railwayand also all rights privileges franchises
leases, contracts, chooses in action and similar
property, whether legal or equitable, belonging
to said Marietta x North Georgia Railway Com
pany or to which it is il any way entitled and
also all right, title, claim interest and demand
of the said Marietta & North Georgia Railway
Company in and to the line of telegraph upon its
right of way.
Said property TO be offered Tor sale as follows,
towit:
/. Said II. II. Taylor, special commissioner,
shall at II o'clock noon on Saturday, the 23rd
of November, 1895, at the southern end of the
approaches OF the bridge over the Tennessee
river at Knoxville, in Knox county, Tennessee,
proceed to sell the following described portion
Of said Marietta & North Georgia Railway:
(aO That portion of said standard gauge road
lying in the State of Tennessee and extending |
from the State line between Georgia and Tennes- |
see to the City of Knoxville distance of about !
109 81 miles, exclusive of the bridge and its APP
proaches and the track laid upon right of way /
river, and exclusive of all rolling stock and
equipment, shall be sold as one parcel at a |
minimum or upset price of S245000, and no bid |
for less sum shall DC received; and that de- |
post in cash or certified check shall be made with
the Special Commissioner at the time of sale in |
the sum OF S3S,OOO
(b) The said bridgeiover the Tennessee river at
Knoxville, its approaches and tracks laid in con-
nection Herewith, shall be by said H. II. Taylor
special commissioner, offered for sale in one
parcel at minimum or upset price OF $4,000;
and the time of sale there shall be paid in cash
or certified check to said Special Commissioner /
making the sale OF said bridge and itsapproaches,
the sum OF $4,000.
After offering the broad guage road in Tennessee.
and the bridge and its approaches, separately,
said IL. II. Taylor, special commissioner. shall
then offer for sale the two pieces of property
jointly; but he can accept no bid for the two
Jointly which is less than the sum of the bids for
the two when offered separately.
2. After making the sale of the said above set
forth portions of said Marietta & North Georgia
Railway lying in the state OF Tennessee, as afore-
said, said II. IL. Taylor shall then proceed and be
at Marietta in the county OF Cobb in the state of
Geors lat twelve o'clock neon on Monday the 25th
day of November, 1925, to take part in the sale
of the remaining portions OF said Marietta and
North Georgia Railway as follows:
Robert J. Lowry, special commissioner, shall on
Monday, the 18th day OF November, 1895. at II
O'Clock, noon, proceed to offer at public sale to
the highest bidder or bidders, on the premises at
the passenger depot or station of said Marietta 4
North Georgia Railway, in the town of Marietta,
in Cobb county, Georgia, the following described
property
(a) Said Robert ], Lowry, special commits
sioner, shall softer for sale as q separate par
eel the broad gauge road lying in The State of |.
Georgia and extending from Marietta via Blue
iN"Se 20 ne Tennessee state line, distance of
les, together with all the broad
stock and equirment of every kind
d Marietta & North
s39o.0Oo, Of which sum there shall oe paid in cash
or certified check at the time of sale to said Spe-
cia Commissioner the sum of $4,000.
tb) There shall then be offered by Robert J.
Lowry, special commissioner, one parcel the
narrow gauge road extending from Blue Ridge in
the state OF Georgia to the State line between
Georgia and North Carolina, distance of about
1851 miles, together with all narrow gauge r.
stock and equipment belonging 20 said NJ. ri, ,
X North Georgia Railway Company, at mini
mum or upset price of $4,000, OF which sum there
shall be paid in cash or certified cheek at the time
of sale to said Special Commissioner 81 500
(cl There shall then be offered by Robert j.
Lowry, special commissioner, as one parcel the
narrow gauge road lying in the State of North
Carolina extending from the State line between
Georgia and North Carolina distance oil about
y, ~ miles, at minimum or up set price OF
$4,000, and there shall be paid in cash or certi
fled check at the time Of sale to said Special Com
missioner the sum OF 81 600.