The herald., 1896-11-24
TAILORS AT OUTS.
A Damage Suit in Which Some Curious
Facts Are Alleged.

A small sensation has been sprung
among the local tailors of the city and
now the trouble is to be ventilated in
the courts.
A complaint, filed yesterday, where
in Emile Rosenberg, widow, and the
children of the late Moritz Rosenberg
are the plaintiffs and the Jos. M. Hayes
Woolen Co., Grayson Lewis and l.. c.
Angevine are the defendants. furnishes
some racy particulars regarding a busi-
ness deal which recently took place.
1t is alleged that last January Moritz
Rosenberg entered into an agreement
with Angevine to start a merchant tall
oring business under the name of the
Eagle Woolen company. Rosenberg was
to put inthe money and control the busi-
reSs and Angevine was to exhibit his
skill as a cutter and in the general con-
duct of the business. Premises We're
taken at 2OS South Broadway and the
new firm did an excellent business. Up
to the month of April large quantities
of goods had been purchased from the
Hayes company, through the agent,
Grayson Lewis, in accordance with the
custom of the trade. On April 18th it
is claimed that no money was due to the
Hayes company, but Rosenberg deposit
ed with Lewis, as the company's agent,
to secure certain payments which would
become due thereafter to wit: April
Goth, S400; May 1st, $500: May Z, $780,
On April 18th the defendants are ac-
cused with having conspired to give
Rosenberg the grand razzle-dazzle and
freeze him out of his business; and this
with the intention of esta blishing a new
business wherein Angevine was to be ap-
pointed local manager, the Hayes COM
tn ic h 10 IN,
of the design the Hayes company pre-
tended to assign an account of $2482
against Rosenberg to the Standard Col
lection and Mercantile CO., such account
being claimed to have accrued between
December 1st, 1895, and April 18th of the
present year.
The collection agency filed complaint
but it was not verified by any officer of
the agency, the Hayes company being
actually the plaintiff in interest, but was
verified by Lewis the agent Of the COM
pany. At the same time Lewis filed a
false affidavit to the effect that Rosen-
berg was indebted on April 18th to the
assignor of plaintiff $24S2, "over and
above all legal set offs and counter
claims" while he held in his hands
checks aggregating 5000. dated in ad-
vance, signed by Rosenberg and drawn
for the purpose of meeting the several
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come due.
In pursuance of the alleged conspiracy
an attachment was placed in the hands
of the sheriff. the defendants pretending
to believe that Rosenberg was about to
sell out. In order to lift the attachment
Rosenberg had to make heavy sacrifices
and the store was kept closed for four
days during La Fiesta. In consequence
of these difficulties the business of Ros-
enberg was ruined and he was compelled
to cancel his agreement with Angevine.
At once the Hayes company and Gray
son Lewis formed a business arrange
ment with Angevine and opened up bus
mess on South Broadway, near the place
of Moritz Rosenberg, under the name of
the Buffalo Woolen company.
BY reason of these wrong acts and
frauds perpetrated a claim is made for
$40, 900 suffered in the wreckage of the
business carried on by Moritz Rosen-
berg during his life time. He died in Oc-
tober last and the present suit has been
instituted by the widow of the late Nor
itz Rosenberg and his children, as heirs
to his estate.