San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-23
THE STATE OF TEXAS.

To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Bexar county-Greeting:
You are hereby commanded, that by
making publication of this citation in
some newspaper published in the coun-
ty of Bexar, for four consecutive weeks
| previous to the return day hereof,
you summon the Yorkshire Investment
& American Mortgage company and
Alfred Crebbin, who are non-residents
| of the State Of Texas, to be and APP
pear before the District court of the
45th judicial district of Texas, to be
holden in and for the county of Bex-
ar, at the courthouse thereof in the
city of San Antonio, on the first Mon
| day in October, 1897, then and there
| to answer to the petition of Francis
s. Bangs, George H. Southland, D. w.
! McWilliams. Chas. w. Ogden, Joseph
M. Keatinge, and w. ]. Caesar, consti-
tuting a committee of reorganization
| filed in said court on the 2Sth day of
April, 1897. against the said Yorkshire
| Investment & American Mortgage
company and Alfred Crebbin, and al
| leging in substance as follows, to-wit:
That prior to 1895, the Alamo Heights
Land & improvement company, cor
poration, owned the following lots and
| blocks in that certain subdivision of
Bexar county, lying near the city of
San Antonio, Texas, known as Alamo
Heights, to-wit:
Blocks numbered one "a and two (0;
lots numbered one ~ to thirty-seven
| $50, both inclusive, and forty-two (42)
to forty-nine 49), both inclusive, in
block numbered three 90; blocks num-
bered four az, five go, eight (S), nine
| (9), twelve Q2), to twenty-one (2D, both
inclusive, twenty-five (25), twenty-six
| (26), twenty-nine (29), and thirty 900;
lots numbered one % to six (6), both
inclusive, and twenty-one (2D to thirty
| 600, both inclusive, in block number
| ed thirty-one (3D; blocks numbered
thirty-two 1922 and thirty-three (33);
block numbered thirty-four (34) blocks
numbered thirty-five to forty-seven
(47), both inclusive, fifty (5O), fifty-one
(5D, fifty-two (52), fifty-four (5), fif-
ty-seven $50 to one hundred and forty
five G45), both inclusive, and one hun
dred and forty-seven Q47) to two hun
dred and three (203), both inclusive,
and ogden park, Spring park, Leslie
park, Melville park, Creamery park,
Park K, and Park b.
That prior to 1895 aforesaid property
had been encountered by three mortga-
ges securing to aforesaid defendant
mortgage company sums which in Sep
TENDER, 1895, aggregated something
over $4,000; that prior to the fall OF
1895, said Alamo Heights Land & I'M
provement company became insolvent
and said mortgages were in default;
that plaintiffs were constituted re-
organization committee for the pur-
pose of protecting the stockholders OF
said Alamo company from the loss of
said property under foreclosure of said
mortgages; that II was agreed between
plaintiffs, as such committee, and de-
PENDANTS, that aforesaid property
should be sold under said mortgages
on September 8, 1895, and purchased
by said defendant mortgage company
or defendant Crebbin as its agent;that
said property so purchased and any
unpaid balance on said mortgage in
debtedness should be conveyed and
transferred to new company to be
organized to take over said property,
the price to be paid by said plaintiffs
for such conveyance and transfer to
be the amount of aforesaid mortgage
Indebtedness owing said defendant
mortgageScompany and cost of fore
closure, SAID price to be paid in cush,
except $4,000. for which $4,000 said
mortgage company should accept the
bond of said company to be organized
as aforesaid secured by mortgage on
aforesaid property, said mortgage to
contain reasonable provision for par
tial payment, releases, etc. so that said
lncw company might improve and sell
tout in parcels aforesaid property; that
as contemplated aforesaid property
was sold on. September 3, 1895, and I'll
tie thereto taken In the name OF said
/ defendant Crebbin. That thereupon
said plaintiffs, as said committed. paid
the exnenses OF foreclosure and ON Sen.