The age-herald., 1899-11-14
IMPORTANT BILL
 IN THE CITY COURT Filed by j. H. Lee and Lewisburg Coal & Coke Company. PENSION MONEY RECEIVED Probate Judge Will Distribute Funds to Confederate Veterans-The County
 Pays Eight Times More
 Than It Gets Back
PENSION MONEY RECEIVED

me beWlSDurg coal ana Ooke company
 and J. H. Lee yesterday filed bill in the
 chancery division of the city court against
 the Jefferson Coal and Railway company in which they seek to force the last named company to execute certain lease which is alleged to have been agreed upon by the bond and stockholders at @ meeting held last April
 The bill rectes that at a meeting of the Jefferson Coal and Railway company, held on the Sd day of March, 1899, committee was appointed to obtain the best terms pos- sible in regard to a disposition of the com pany's properties and to report on the same for ratification by the security holders Fur ther, that on April 14, 1899, this committee reported in favor of leasing the company's property to J. H. Lee, and that the report was adopted It is also alleged that J. H. Lee organized or caused to be organized, the Lewisburg Coal and Coke company,
 which company entered upon and took pos
 session of the property, and that about S,- 600 was expended in improvements and in the development of the property. \ Subsequent Complainants further allege that subse- quent to the meeting above referred to a
 
 had participated in and assented to the lease, united in the transfer of the stock and bonds of the Jefferson Coal and Rail- way company to the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company looking to a fore closure of the mortgage that secured the
 bonds in order that they might acquire the property. It is also alleged in the bill that
 while the Jefferson Coal and Railway con-
 l.1;.. 4o H. Lee they never did so, and complainants pray the court to issue @ decree compelling the respondents to execute the lease agreed upon, also to enjoin them from selling or transferring the stock and bonds to the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron com pany without giving notice of complainants rights
 The property involved in this bill is the old Mary Lee mine, about six miles north of the city. The Jefferson Coal and Rail- way company was formed three of four years ago and was incorporated with a cap ital stock of $400 900, of which $50 900 was preferred, and $25O 900 common. The Lewis burg Coal and Coke company was organ | ized in April of this year and has been op- erating the mines for about six months. City Court -af The damage suits of Lemeul T. Lavender vs. Birmingham Railway and Electric com pany, and Julius Cary vs. Louisville and Nashville Railroad company, were dismiss ed.
 l.. l.. King vs. the Mayor and Board of l Aldermen of Ensley, damages was on trial when court adjourned for the day. Circuit Court yxy;lliano T. Murray If Euta la. has l filed bill In the circuit court against s. P. | Clements. The complainant alleges that l the defendant Clements, by force and arms 1 took possession of a tract of land near Mor
 ris in 1S96 The bill seeks to have Clements
 elected from the land, and also asks for | 1,500 damages.
 Marriage License l Marriage licenses were issued yesterday l to B. E. Meadows and Miss Francis Sparks,
 and C. E. Gates and Miss Johanna Scheus- | sler.
 Pension Money Probate Judge J. P. Stiles has received I from the state treasurer the pension money I for confederate veterans and their widows | The fund for 1899 amounts to s4,435.2o, and is divided among the four classes as fol- | lows:
 l In the first class three will get $23.76 each. | In the second class five will get $19.SO | each.
 In the third class three will get $15.s4 each | In the fourth class there are 355, who will
 each get $11SS.
 | Jefferson county paid into the state | treasury on account of this fund about $34, 900, or more than eight times the amount ] distributed among her own pensioners.