Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-06

Wanted
Apply to
G. A. CANE Shirt Co.
Island Pond, VT.
PETITION AND ORDER.

STATE OF NERMONT,l -....,.
ISRE HOLLAND MORGAN TELEPHONE CO.
October Term. 1908.
To the Honorable Court ofChancery, next
to be holden at Guidhall within and for the
county of Essex on the sixth day of October,
A. u 1908.
The Petition of the Holland & Morgan Tel
ephone Company, of Brighton in said county
of Essex showeth that it is n corporation or
gained under and by virtue of Act No. lis
of the laws of the General Assembly OF the
state OF Vermont for the year 1884, and hav-
ing it's principal office at Brighton, in SAID
county.
meeting held at the Office of Dale X 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 regis cred mail. it was voted to dissolve
| said corporation aid wind up its affairs in
| pursuance of section 3735 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 9th day of May 1900. the
| 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.
| 81 The stock book and records of said
corporation have not been properly and le-
| gally kept.
az 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 tor more than year LIST past.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that said
corporation be dissolved, its affairs wound
up, and that authority he granted to divid,
it's capital stock and assets among its stock.
holders other persons thereto entitled. anC
all creditors OF said corporation be required
to file specifications Sf their claims with Tho
clerk of said court and that creditors, stock
holders and other persons interested be mott
fed to appear and show cause why the pra Y
err of this bill should not be granted, and tina
the manner of notifying stockholders, credit
ors and parties interested be prescribed by
said court.
Dated at Brighton in said county, Octobe
9Th, 1908.
Holland & Morgan Telephone CO. Petitioner
! BY its Attorneys, Dale * Amey.
STATE OF VERMONT, ESSEN, SIS.
IN cHANcERY october Term. 1908.
| In consideration of the facts set forth il
the within petition it is ordered that motto
be given to all creditors of the Holland &
Morgan Telephone Company, to file specif
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 ant
other persons interested in said corporation
to show cause at the term of court to be hel
at Guildhall in said county of Essex, on tn
last Tuesday OF March, 1904. why the praye
of said petitioner should not be granted, sal
notice to be served by giving in hand or senC
ing by registered mail within ten days fro1
. the date hereof a true copy of this pettio
and order to each stakeholder and creditor
and by publishing this petition and ordt
! three weeks StICcRSS1VPlv In he ESSey mt
Il. Herald, the last publicatio to be on or b,
fore November 10th, 1908,
1 Dated at Guildhall, in said county, Octobe
| 18TH 1908.
LovELAND MUNsoN, Chancellor
A true copy of Petition and order
Attest-GEO. A. Human Clerk