Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-10-23
PETITION AND ORDER.
STATE OF VERMONT.l
ESSEX COUNTY, IS. IN CHANCERN.
NRE HOLLAND MORGAN TELEPHONE co.
October Term. 1903

STATE OF VERMONT.(
ESSEX COUNTY, IS. I IN CHANCERN.
NRE HOLLAND a MORGAN TELEPHONE co.
October Term, 1908.
To the Honorable Court ofChancery, next
to be holden at Guildhall within and for the
county of Essex on the sixth day of October,
A. ID 1908.
The Petition of the Holland & Morgan Tel
| 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 1854. and hav-
ing its principal Office at Brighton, in said
county.
Your petitioner further declares that, at a
| meeting held at the office of Dale * Amey, 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 and proper
| notice to all stockholders by publication and
| by registered mail, it was voted to dissolve
said corporation aid wind up it's affairs in
pursuance of section 1895 Vermont Statutes
Your petitioner further declares and gives
| the Honorable Court to understand -
"a BY virtue of the bylaws of said cor
| poration the directors are given power to
make assessments on stock, and to enforce
such assessments. In accordance with the
provision, at a meeting of the directors of
said corporation held at the Office ofsaid Tel
ephone Company, at Island Pond, in said
Brighton, on the 10th day of May, 1900, Il e
directors voted to assess the stock twenty
per cent. assessments to be paid within thirty
days Yet said assessments were never paid
Cd The capital stock of said corporation
| is one thousand dollars, and there are out
standing debts amounting to four thousand
dollars, direct violation of the act OF incor-
poration.
C3) The stock book and records of said
corporation have not been properly and le-
gally kept.
a. No annual meeting OF said CORPORA
ton has been held since March 22nd, 1000.
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 tor more than year last past.
wherefore your petitioner prays that said
corporation be dissolved, it's affairs wound
up, and that authority be granted to divide
its capital stock and assets among its stock
holders or ether persons thereto entitled and
all creditors OF said corporation be required
to hle specifications Of their claims with the
clerk of said court and that creditors, stock.
holders. and other persons interested be mott
ned TO appear and show cause why the pray
err OF this bill should not be granted and that
the manner of notifying stockholders. credit
ors and parties inter ested be prescribed by
said court.
Dated at Brighton in said county nc+ohar
9Th, 1903.
Holland & Morgan Telephone Co Petitioner.
.. BY IT'S Attorneys, Dale * Amey
STATE OF VERMONT, ESSEX. IS.
IN CHANcERY october Term, 9O3
In consideration of the facts set forth in
the within petition it is ordered that notice
be given to all creditors of the Holland &
Morgan Telephone COMPANY to file snec;f
cations of their claims with the clerk df The
Court of Chancery for said county of Essex.
WITHIN three months from the date of this
order ana to all creditors. stockholders and
other persons in crested in said corporation
TO snow cause at the term of court to be held
at Gnildhall in said county of Essex, on the
last Tuesday OF March, 9O4. why the PRAYER
OF SAID petitioner should not be granted. said
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
ana order to each stakeholder and creditor,
and by publishing this petition and order
Ihfee weeks successfully in the Essex County
Herald, the last publica ton to he on nr hs
fore November / 9th, 1908
Dated at Guildhall, in said county. October
18th. 1903. '"Ni
LovELAND MuNsoN, Chancellor.
true copy of Petition and order.
Attest-GEo. a. HUBBARp Clerk