The age-herald., 1901-01-10
Receiver Appointed for Monte
 vallo Coal Company
DAY OF VERDICTS IN COURTS
Birmingham Machine and Foundry Com pany Gets $354.7O2-Lewis Robin son $2o0-J. E. Lacy $1,I25.91-
 Other Veroicts, Etc.

Judge SWayne, who Is now holding court at Huntsville, has appointed Burgess Little receiver of the Montevallo Coal and Rail- road Company at the instance of Irving l. Gardner ct al, complainants.
 The bill of complaint ayers that the company is practically insolvent; that il owes for the hire of convicts with which it has been operating It's mines, and that the counties have withdrawn the convicts on account of not having been paid for them, and the mines are not being worked, the pumps have been stopped and a thou sand dollars worth of steel rails, tools and equipment are now under water, and are either damaged or destroyed.
 The bill says that since the organization of the company there has been a lack of harmony between the officers and stock holders, eliminating on June 26, 1900, in a personal encounter between A. H. Gardner general manager, and c. w. Cary, a stock holder; that numerous suits have been filed against the corporation, and a receiv- CT is asked for to take charge of Its assets and prevent them being wasted in Htga- ton.
 The order appointing the receiver au- thorizes him to take charge of all the prop erty of the corporation, and enjoins the defendant and all persons having any of its assets in their possession to turn them over to the receiver. The receiver is re- quired to give a $5OOO bond and the com plainant bond of $2OOO payable to the de- fendant in terms of the statute.
 Circuit Court.
 In the Circuit Court a verdict of $35l7 o2 was rendered in the case of the Brmng- ham Machine and Foundry Company vs. the Birmingham Steel and Wire Company. Three other suits between these parties have been consolidated in one case which Is now on trial They are assumpsit suits for machinery furnished. Defendants claim offsets in the way of damages for failure to deliver machinery on time.
 A consent judgment of S2OO was rendered in the case of Lewis Robinson vs. the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
 Elizabeth D. Snow ct al. have filed suit against the Southern Railway Company and the Kansas City Memphis and Birming- ham Railroad Company for 5000 damages. They allege that certain lands which were the property of plaintiffs husband and father, who died in March. 1896. had been set apart as plaintiffs homestead, and that since the death of said F. $. Snow defend ants have maintained an embankment which prevented the natural flow of water, causing it to bank up, whereby the value of the land is diminished.
 City Court.
 In the first division of the City Court there was a verdict for defendant in the
 I9...- ham Railway and Electric Company a yer dict for defendant was also rendered in the case of Mack Jones vs. Henderson Brew ing Company.
 The case of Mrs. Nancy Arnot, admins trix, vs. the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road Comany. is on trial. Plaintiff is suing for $25, 900 damages for the killing of her husband by defendants alleged negligence. In the second division the case of J. F. Lacy vs Terrell Coal Company, which has been on trial several days, ended in yer dict of sl72591. In this division the gar nshees were discharged in the following cases: J. s. Shannon vs. w. H. Shelton, defendant, Southern Railway Company garnshee: J. C. Rockett vs. J, K. P. Lacy defendant, Maggie H. Morris, garnshee; l.. P. Harwell vs Prince Mithell defend- ant, Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing Company, garnishee; Robinson and Blair vs w. H. Jones, defendant, Alabama State Fair Association, garnishee.
 Court Items.
 These are quiet days at the jail As former president might say, they are suf- fering from innocuous desuetude
 The habeas corpus case of Grant Wilson was not heard yesterday. Instead the case of Paul Hawkins, charged with murder, was heard and his bond fixed at $1500.
 Marriage licenses were issued to Ira G. Saltwarsh and Minnie l.. Denison, R. A. Mcdonald and M. H. Sims, Henry Williams and Jean Austin, William D. Martin and Laura Bruce, Marcus K. Cottingham and Mamie l.. Canteon.
 A petition In bankruptcy was filed by S. Greenstein of Ensley.
 Overwhelmingly Democratic.
 Raleigh, N. C., January 9.-The Legisla-
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