The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-05-06
NEW ADvERTIsEMENTs.
STATE OF MAINE.


and the Grand Trunk Railway Company of
canada, petitioners for appointment of
trustees to fill vacancies.
10 the Honorable Judges of the Supreme
judicial Court of the State of Maine:
Your petitioners, the Atlantic & st. Law
aaly established and existing under the laws
OF tne state of Maine and having place of
business at Portland, in said State, and the
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, "a
corporation duly organized and existing by
virtue OF the laws of the Dominion of Cana
ga, and having place of businss at Mon
treaI in said Canada, respectfully represent
ana snow unto your Honors:
L. mat your petitioners are both interest
eu IN the trust hereinafter set forth, that on
tue LIST day of October, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
four, the said Atlantic 81 st. Lawrence Rail.
road Company duly made and executed
mortgage deed of trust to Charles j. Bridges
and Joseph dickson, both then resident of
said Montreal, and John j. Brown then d
resident of Portland, Maine, and to their
survivors and successors, of the railroad,
franchises of the said Atlantic 81 st. Law
renee Railroad in the states of Maine, New
hampshire and Vermont, of which full
description is contained in said deed of
of trust, which said trust was accepted by
sald Charles j. Bridges and Joseph Hickson
and John B. Brown, who thereby became
and held the property rights and franchises
conveyed to them in trust for the pupose of
securing the payment of three thousand
nlnety-nlne bonds for one hundred pounds
sterling each, as set forth in said mortgage,
sald bonds being dated October 1st, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-fcur, and
10 6er ONE ptner purposes named in said deed
OF trusti the property conveyed and the
nature OF said trust more fully appear by
said 1ndenture and mortgage deed of trust,
a copy Of which is hereunto annexed and
this petition
2. That after entering upon the execution
OF sad trust and during its continuance, va
cancies occurred therein which cannot be
filled by appointment by the surviving trus-
tee or trustees named in said deed of trust,
and that SAID vacancies occurred and still
continue by reason of the fact that the said
Charles !; Brydges and Joseph Hickson and
John j. Brown have each of them deceased,
and that the survivors of them neglected
during their lifetime to fill the vacancies
occurring by reason of the said decease of
their co-trustee5: and said vacancies in said
trust, of the places of all said trustees still
remain untitled, and there is no trustee to
administer SAID trust created by said deed
OF mortgage, And your petitioners further
say that after the decease of said Charles
): Bridges and John b. Brown, that the
ter said trust until the fourth day
of January, A. D. 1897, VIXEN he died, not
having appointed any trustees to fiji the
continuing co vacancies caused by the death of
Charles J. Bridges and John 3. Brown.
=, g. And your petitioners further represent
that said The Grand Trunk Railway Com
and property described in said trust deed,
which said lease is still in force for the un-
expired term thereof; that the bonds Sc
cured by said indenture and mortgage deed
OF trust have never been discharged or cam
celled, but the same are now held by your
petitioner, the Grand Trunk Railway Com
pany of Canada.
A. And your petitioners further say that
it is necessary that said trust should be con-
tinued and administered for the benefit of
said bonds and the holders thereof, and the
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and trusts defined and set forth in said
mortgage deed of trust of the Atlantic & st.
Lawrence Railroad Company. said copy of
which is he reunto annexed and marked
Exhibit Az
Wherefore your petitioners being the par
ties interested in the trust and in the pro-
Atlantic 81 st. Lawrence Railroad Company
amongst other things as the mortgagor and
the owner of the equity of redemption I'M
der said mortgage deed of trust, and the
obligor upon said bonds, and the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada Company amongst
other things being interested as the lessee
of the property, rights and franchises con-
veyed by said mortgage deed of trust, and
as the holder of the bonds secured thereby,
respectfully pray that after such notice TO
all persons interested by publication or
otherwise, as the Court shall order, and upon
due hearing thereon, this Honorable Court
will appoint Charles M. Hays and Charles
Percy, both of Montreal, in the Dominion of
Canada, and Almon a. Strout of Portland
i'll the said county of Cumberland, or such
other persons as the court shall deem suit
BILE, as trustees to fill the vacancies caused
by the death of Charles J. Bridges. John
b. Brown and Joseph Hickson, hereinbefore
as the original trustees under said
deed of trIst and that there
upon and by virtue of said appointment,
the property described in said deed OF trust
and mortgage conveyed to and held by
said Charles j. Bridges, John b. Brown and
Joseph Hickson in their lifetime, and at the
time of the decease of each of them, shall
vest in said trustees SO appointed by sail
court without further conveyance thereof
have the rights and powers to be subject to
the duties relating to such trust to the same
extent and for the same purposes as the
same We're held by the said Charles j.
Bridges, John b. Brown and Joseph Hicl1son,
the original trustees in said trust, and that
proper in the premises to confirm the trans
fer of title as hereinbefore set forth
5.-And your petitioners further pray
that this Honorable Court will order such
personal representatives of said deceased
trustees, and each of them, by publication or
otherwise, as the court may order and de-
cree, and that said heirs at-law and per-
sonal representatives of said deceased trus-
tees. and each of them, may be allowed to
tanned in this petition, ana that this honor
able Court may make such further orders
and DEGREES i'll the premises as it shall deem
meet and proper.
Portland, April ID, 1897.
ATLANTIC & ST. LAWRENCE RAILROAD
COMPANY, ~
By W. DUFFETT, Treasurer.
THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY CO., OF
By CHAs. NJ. HAYS, General Manager.
A. A. STROUT, Attorney for Petitioners.