The age-herald., 1898-08-24

 ed to Judge Bruce at Montgomery, who caused the above stated orders to be Is- sued.
 Receiver Burke, through his attorneys, Robert H. Pearson, of this city, and Henry B. TomplSins, of Montgomery, yesterday filed g. bill in the chancery court against James Herbert Bartlett, J. B. Shields, J. N. Crawford, R. K. Little, N. M David son and the Corona Coal and Coke com pany, setting forth the fact that he had been appointed receiver by the United States circuit court, and had, under and by virtue of said order, proceeded to take possession as such receiver of all the prop erty of said foreign corporation at Jas per, Walker county, excepting that he did not undertake to reduce to possession the property of the Corona Coal and Coke com pany, which is in possession of James Her bert Bartlett as receiver under a decree or S5e honorable ehancery court.
 He further sets forth that he is now in possession of 9995 shares of the stock of the Corona Coal and Coke company, owned by and an asset of the Jasper Town and Lands limited
 Now Has Coke Cosmpanys Property
 He further sets forth that the bill filed in the circuit court of the United States under which he was appointed receiver was filed by John A. James, a citizen of New York, for himself and all other share holders in said Jasper Town and Lands company, against the last named foreign corporation and others that the said John A. James is the owner of ,45O shares of the capital stock of the said foreign cor poration and that other shareholders re- siding in New York and elsewhere outside of the state of Alabama are owners and holders of 29339 shares of said capital stock, all of whom complainant alleges he is in- formed and believes are in accord with and in favor of the bill instituted by said John A. James as a shareholder of the said foreign corporation.
 He further alleges that the said J. H. Bartlett, protesting to act as managing director and agent of said Jasper Town and Land company limited. did, without proper warrant or authority cause to be filed in the chancery court in Walker coun- ty on the Hth day of April 1898, a petition in the name of the Jasper Town and Land Limited, J. H. Bartlett. J. B. Shields, J. N. Crawford and K. K. Little, against one N. M. Davidson, seeking d ulSSOIut4Oll Ol iHe COIOHb SOdi anu SohC company, a corporation organized and ex- isting under tho laws of the state of Ala bama, all the stock of which is the property of the said Jasper Town Lands Limited.
 IL is further alleged that notwithstanding said petition for the dissolution of said Corona Coal and Coke company still pend- ing in chancery court at Jasper undlsposed of, yet that said J. H. Bartlett wrongfuily fraudulently and collusively caused sec ond petition for the dissolution of the Corona Coal and Coke company to be hled in the chancery court in this city on the 18th day of May, 1898, and further that the filing of said petitions for dissolution of said Corona Coal and Coke company were both without any legal warrant or authority, and were colluslve. fraudulent and without the knowledge or consent of any of the stockholders of the said Jasper Town Lands Limited, residing in America; that the or ders for the dissolution of said Corona Coal and Coke company and the forfeiture of charter so brought about by said J. H. Bartlett and his associates in said illegal proceedings are totally void and of no ef- feet and should so be held by the court, in that the said proceeding was without warrant or authority by resolution or d. reetion of the board of directors Of the Jas- per Town Lands Limited and that even if the said J. H. Bartlett, assuming to act as managing director of said foreign cor poraton had received authority to proceed to dissolve the Corona Coal and Coke com pany and have its charter forfeited from the board of directors of said foreign cor hat boa rd of directors are without legal power or authority to direct such dissolution and that only by and through a stockholders meeting of said foreign corporation duly called TOT the purpose could grave a proceeding pc legally inaugurated as the dissolutloh 'aio forfeiture of the charter of the said corona Coal and Coke company, the largest ana most valuable of the properties of the salo Jasper Town and Lands Limited
 If further alleges that as holder ana re- ceiver of 9995 shares of tfHs corona coin- nanv's stock belonging to the Jasper Io"h and Lands. limited, that it becomes ms duty to appeal not only to stay rurther proceeding and sale of the Corona property hut also to have set aside and declared nun and void and of no effect all proceedings heretofore had at the instance or the saio I. H. Bartlett, respecting the dissolution of the said company, and that N. w. Da- vidson the party defendant in said pro- ceedlngs was a bookkeeper for the said corporation and has lately been in the employ of J. H. Bartlett as custodian or certain books, papers, etc, belonging to the last named company and further that no one of complainants nor the defendant, N M. Davidson, are in any wise actually interested in said property, but act simply and solely at the request and desire or James H. Bartlett in everyhtnng they did respecting the said petition, and that Bart lett employed and paid for all counsel, whether for plaintiff or defendant, thus presenting a collusive and fictitious suit for