The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-11
MORE HELLO WAR.
Sheriff Heller Directed to
Levy on the Home Com
pany's Plant.
MANAGER ATKINSON SUED AGAIN
Move Against the Branch in
Newark to Be Made
at Once.

LAWYER Ezra SeSuine TINS moiAlii6
placed in the hand of Sheriff Heller an
execution of judgment against the HUG
son Telephone Company, to be served at
once. The Judgment is for $l,0lo ana IS
in favor of Clarence W. Hughes, Oh
Brooklyn, who sued the Hudson Tele-
phone Company for $1,133 for services ana
commission, from August, 1896 to Septem-
Der, 1897. The commissions were for the
sale of stock of the company. A verdict
for s1,015 was secured on u 4 IN
the Hudson County Circuit, but the Hud-
son Telephone Company argued before
Justice Nevius in the Circuit Court Tor
a new trial. This was refused yesterday
afternoon and a judgment Tor the luil
amount of the verdict was ordered enter
cd by Justice Nevius. Lawyer Segulhe
placed it in the Sheriff's hands for execu.
ton early this morning. Under SherlH
Heavey received the paper.
Suppose the judgment is not settleuf
queried the Unde Sheriff.
Levy on them" replied Mr.. Seguine.
what shall We levy on, the lnstru-
yes. and anything else o can find.
Kindly execute the order at once.
Lawyer equine when seen by a fepof.c
ter for 1.-The News said that the act OF
this morning was d direct reIuIaulon oL
the printer statement of former treasurer
George II. Atkinson, who sWore that the
Hudson Telephone Company owed no per-
son any money for services or other
'aThis gives the lie to his statement, .
said Mr.. Seguine. THAT statement was
made for the purpose of s~nislead1ng the
stockholders. We are prepared also 10
refute his statement that the $2Oo,oo
worth of stock which we say was iraudu-
lently issued, was taken by him in pay
ment for property he turned over TO the
Hudson Telephone Company. ne
did take the stock in payment OF prop
erty, but this is the way he did it: He
bought a little line up in Union Hill cal1ed
the Merchants and Bankers Telephone
Company for 500 and sold it to the Hud-
son Telephone Company for $4,000. Then
he sold the ape a switchboard on
which he claimed to hold the patents, Tor
$50, 900. He never owned a single patent
on the switchboard.
1.-THE inventor, Mr.. Maxwell. is in my
9 ffinsem neni Of He the ea pa Pe0aght we Saa' learned ear ed
the methods of the Hudson Telephone
Company and secured the evidence on
for the appointment Of a receiver py
means of the suit instituted in behalf OF
Clarence Hughes. 1t was then we learned
that 5000, 900 worth of stock had been is
IT, WITHOUT 'el' DeAs ~
Lawyer Seguine declares that he has
further surprises in store for the directors
of the Hudson Telephone. Company ana
the companies with which 1t is allied.
This afternoon he took an important step
He says he expects TO bring 20
light much the same facts in re-
lation to the Newark Telephone
as he dug up against the Hudson Tele-
phone Company.
Mr.. Seguine this afternoon served a
on George H. Atkinson as an
individual in a suit for $4,000, which has
been instituted against him on behalf OF
Theodore Coe of New York and Alfred
Hopkins of Montclair. This suit is for
a breach of contract made with the two
compliments before the Incorporation of
the Newark Telephone Company or the
Home Telephone Company of Trenton.
Coe and Hopkins entered into a contract
with Atkinson to solicit subscription to
stock in a company (the Newark Tele-
phone Company which Atkinson pro-
posed to incorporate and organize The
subscriptions were to be in the nature of
contracts to use the phones. For every
contract Coe or Hopkins secure they
were to receive 81 in cash and stock in the
compan to the value of s.. They. allege
that they received neither, but that when
the compan was organized Atkinson
took the stock that he had promised
them and disposed of it to his own advan-
tage. 1t was the same with contracts
they secured for the Home Telephone
Company of Trenton. Mr.. Atkinson was
until three months ago general manager
of the Newark Telephone Company and
is at present treasurer of the Home Tele-
phone Company.
The suit will be tried in the April term
of the Hudson County Circuit Court.
Lawyer Seguine will by means OF this
suit get the books of the Newark Tele-
phone Company into court