Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-10-30
PETITION AND ORDER.
STATE OF VERMONT,O
ESSEN COUNTY, IS. IN I'll NJ l. Is

STATE OF NERMONT,l ...,,,,,,.
ESSEN COUNTY, IS. I IN CHANCERN.
N RE HOLLAND A MORGAN TELEPHONE co.
october Term, 1908.
To the Honorable Court ofChancery, next
to be holden at Gudhall within and for the
county of Essex on the sixth day OF October'
A. d 1908.
ephone Company, of Brighton in said county
of Essex showeth that il is a corporation or
ganized under and by virtue of Act No. lis
of the laws of the General Assembly of the
state of Vermont for the year $50, and hay,
ing its principal office at Brighton, in saiu
county.
meeting held at the Office of Dale x Amev, in
the village of Island Pond in said Brighton,
on the 18th day of August, 1908, at two
O'Clock in the afternoon, after due ana proper
notice to all stockholders by publication and
by regis cred mail it was voted to dissolve
said corporation aid wind up it's affairs in
pursuance of section 3735 Vermont Statutes.
Your petitioner further declares and gives
the Honorable Court to understand =
"a Is1 virtue of the bylaws of said cor
poration the directors are given power to
make assessments on stock, ana to enforce
such assessments. In accordance with the
provision, at a meeting of the directors of
said corporation held at the office otsaid Tel
ephone Company, at Island Pond. in said
Brighton, on the 18th day of May, 1900, II c
directors voted to assess the stock twenty
per cent. assessments to be paid within thirty
DAYS. Yet said assessments were never paid.
t2) The CHpltal STOCK Oh sara corporation
is one thousand 1llars, and there are out
standing debts amounting to four thousand
dollars, direct violation of the act OF Moor
poration.
corporation have not been properly and le-
gally kept.
a. No annual meeting of said corpora
ton has been held since March 22nd, 1900.
and none of the officers elected at that time
| with one exception, are stockholders at the
time of the filing of this bill, nor have they
been for more than year last past.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that said
! corporation be dissolved, its affairs wound
up and that authority be granted to divide
| its capital stock and assets among its stock
all creditors OF said corporation be reGuircd
| to file specifications Of their claims with the
! clerk of said court and that creditors stock
! holders, and other persons interested be mott.
| fed to appear and show cause why the pra ~
er OF this bill should not be granted, and that
the manner of notifying stockholders credit
ors and parties interested be prescribed by
said court.
Dated at Brighton in said county, October
! 9Th, 1903.
Holland & Morgan Telephone 20. Petitioner
BY its Attorneys, Dale * Amey.
STATE OF VERMONT, Essen, SIS.
| IN CHANCERY october Term, 1903.
In consideration of the facts set forth ir
| the within petition it is ordered that notice
| be given to all creditors of the Holland &
Morgan Telephone Company, to file specifi
| cations of their claims with the clerk of tn,
Court of Chancery for said county of Essex
within three months from the date of thi,
order and to all creditors, stockholders and
other persons interested in said corporation
to show cause at the term of court to be helC
at Guildhall in said county of Essex, on tn,
last Tuesday OF March, 1904, why the praye
of said petitioner should not be granted. sale
notice to be served by giving in hand or send
| ing by registered mail within ten days from
the date hereof a true copy of this petition
| and order to each stakeholder and creditor
and by publishing this petition and orde
| three weeks successfully in the Essex Count,
Herald, the last publication to be on or be
fore November 9th, 1908,
Dated at Guildhall, in said county, Octobe
10Th. 1908.
LovRLAND MUNsoN, Chancellor
A true copy of Petition and order