The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-11

The object of this suit is to procure de.
cree annulling, cancelling and setting aside
a pretended deed from the Calvert Coal ana
Iron Company to one Charles o. Beaumont,
Trustee, dated 10th day of May, 1902, and re
corded in biber E. q. 7. No. 40 folio 5g7, one
of the Land records of Garrett county, Mary
land.
The bin states that certain Robert A.
Parrish, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was,
in his lifetime, the owner of 1915 shares of
the capital stock OF the plaintiff Calvert GAL
ana Iron company, which whole capital
stock cOntisted of 1880 shares and that Cal
vert Coal and Iron Company is the owner in
fee of tract of land in Garrett county Ma
ryland. known as Lot No. 3 of the sub-divis-
ion of "Beatty'S lainS, containing 800 acres,
more or less, and is III possession thereof and
has been in exclusive and continuous pos
session Of the same for long term of wears
under deed from Joseph T. Thornton, trus-
tee, duly recorded in LibeT w. II. T. No. H.
folio 81, one Of the Land Records of Garrett
county, copy of said deed being filed with
the bill marked "PIaintifS Exhibit A. that
on the end Of February, 1901 the said Robert
A. Parish, being owner or the aforesaid
shares of stock made and executed his last
VIII ana testament; on or ABOUT the 10Th Gay
OF March, 1901, died without having revoked
the same and said viii was duly admitted to
probate by the Register of Wills of the City
and County of Philadelphia, Penn, and il
now Of record Of record in the Office Of said
Register OF Wills in VIII Book No. pa page
5sl, and that Letters Testamentary were
granted thereon unto the plaintiff. Marie
Gaul. the eXecutriX therein named, and duly
certified copies of said viii and a certifcate
of the grant OF said letters are filed with the
bill marked plaintiffs Exhibits b and CIV
respectively. The bnl further charges thar
the said defendants, WinslOw Mason Charles
f. Haiues, Charles o. Beaumont, trustee,
and the other defendants whose names to
the compliments are unknown have con
spired together with the intent and purpose
to fraudulently, illegally and unlawfully de-
prive the compliments OF their right ana
title to the aforesaid tract ofland and charge
that the Sald DEFENDANTS above named and
the other defendants whose names to the
plaintiffs are unknown have assumed to act
as the officers. stockholders, directors and
agents of the plaintiff Calvert Coal and Iron
Company and have attempted to exercise
the rights conferred by law upon said plain
till and have assumed to exercise the fran
chiSeS thereof all of which acts on the para
OF the said defendants above named are
illegal and void, they the said defendants
having no interest whatever in said prop
erty, stock, franchises and rights of Calvert
Coal and Iron Company, and that the deed
to the said Charles o. Beaumont, trustee
dated the 10th day of May, 1902 purporting
to have been executed by Winslow Mason
fraudulently representing himself to be the
President and Charles +. Hanes, fraudu-
lentiy representing himself and pretending
to be the duly constituted attorney and
! agent OF Calvert Coal and Iron Company,
whereby they undertook to convey the afore-
said tract OF land to the said Charles o.
beaumont, trustee, and which deed is re
corded in liber f. q. 7. No. 40, folio 597, one
of the Land Records of Garrett county, and
a copy of which is fled with the bill marked
plaintiffs Exhibit d. is fraud and CON
stitutes cloud upon thetitle of Calvert Coal
and Iron Company to said land, the stock of
Which corporation with the exception OF
twenty-five shares belongs to and is the sole
property of the said plaintiff Marie Gaul, ex-
ecutriX and sole devisee under the will OF
said Robert A. Parrish, deceased, and that
the said pretended deed, unless set aside
and Cancelled by the Court of Equity, will
deprive the compliments of all their rights
and interests OF every kind TO which they
are entitled III said property, and will strip
the compartments of all said property and
VIII bestow the same upon the said defend
ants above named and their co-conspirators
whose names are to the compliments IN
known and who have assumed the power
and undertaken TO exercise the franchises of
Calvert Coal and Iron Company and who
have no right and title to the same.
That the pretended deed to the said Charles
O. Beaumont, trustee, is wholly without
legal consideration, is fraudulent and void
and should be set aside cancelled and an
nulled by this Court.
The bill then orays that the said pretended
deed purporting to have been made and ex-
ecuted on the 10th day of May. 1902, by said
| Calvert Coal and Iron Company, through its
pretended president Winslow Mason, and
Charles +. Haines, its pretended attorney in
fact and agent, to the said Charles o. Beau
mont trustee, may be annulled, cancelled
and set aside by the decree of this Court, for
general relief and for an order of publication
against the said Winslow Mason Charles F.
/ Haines ana Charles q. beaumont. trustee
who are non-residents of this State, and also
! an OIuci VI DuDllCdblO TO w, re-
During the unknown persons and parties
who have assumed to act In connection with
the above named defendants as officers,
stockholders, directors and agents of said
Calvert Coal and Iron Company, of the OBJ
ject and substance Of this bin and warning
them to be and appear in this Court, in per-
son or by solicitor on or before certain day
to be named therein to show cause, il any,
why decree ought not to be passed as
prayed.
1t is thereupon, this 18th day OF February.
1904, ordered, by the Circuit Court for Garrett
county, sitting in Equity that the plaintiffs
by causing a copy of this order to be inserted
i'll some newspaper, published in said Gar
rett county, once in each OF four successive
weeks before the 18th day OF March, 1904 give
notice to the said absent defendants of the
object and substance OF this bill, warning
them to appear in this Conrt in person or by
solicitor on or before the 29th day of March
next, to show cause, if any they have, why
decree ought not to be passed as prayed.
f. z. TOWER, Clerk.
True copy-test:-
Il. 2. TowER, Clerk. R5