The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-03
THE 3. & 8. INJUNCTION.
"The best laid plans of mice and men
oft gang aglee."

oft gang aglee"
We are not inclined 10 be pessimisti-
cal because Of the fact that the sale Of
the Brunswick and Birmingham Rail
road Company did not occur yesterday
according to schedule, nor have'we the
slightest idea but what the property
viii eventually pass into the hands
of the Atlantic and Birmingham Rail.
way Company.
From the view point of common cit,
izenship and as a public organ deep
ly interested in the welfare of Bruins
wick, however, The News feels that it
should enter it's protest against the
hap-hazzard iungling fashion in which
those at the helm of the B. & B. have
steered their unseaworthy ship
! through the legal tempest which, it
appears, its own crew has made for it
In the very first place it seems to
us that from the very beginning Of
this deal either the general or the leg
al department OF the Brunswick and
Birmingham Railroad Company have
selected dark nights for dark deeds.
When they sought the state courts in
secret onnclave and asked for re-
ownership months and months ago
for the property they knocked prece-
dents into cooked hat, threw def
Iance in the face of the United States
court and apparently made a bold eff
fort to place the road into liquidation
and receivership without fully advis-
ing certain element of its sharehold-
ers.
The reading public will remember
that this action was stopped by a
mandatory order from Judge Speer's
court, appointing temporary receiver.
The movant in this litigation, it
seems. was paid to withdraw his case
and finally the request asked for in
secrecy was granted and state re-
ceiver was appointed.
In all of this litigation it appears
that the B. & D. people have not act
ed in perfect faith neither with it's
creditors nor with thos" VINO are to
purchase it. Evidently there is some
thing very badly wrong AMI il is cuc
opinion that the last procedure win
have a tendency to rigAt some Of taeso
evils
We regret that thsi second eHor.
has been made to BLOCK this deal, ne
consummation Of ahieh is devoutly
desired by industrial, commercial and
progressive Brunswick We are in
dulging the hope that the Atiau;ic and
birmingham people have rot been toy
ed with in this matter and if they
have been it is our conviction that
they will be grated the very iullost
measure of Justice.
With reference to those gentlemen
who have claims against the old 3. &
b. Railroad Company we have no crit
icisms to make of their conduct, self
preservation is the very first law of
human nature and it is only natural
consequence that they should make
every effort to protect their interest in
the promises
We are inclined to look ON the cheer
full side of the situation for several
reasons. In the first place the claim
| of the Ensign scamp Company is not
very large one and again, unlike the
last receivership the property is actu-
ally in the hands of the A. & b. or a
sympathetic receivershrip and they do
say that possession is ten points in
the law.
As stated above. we very earnestly
hope that no serious complications
will arise and that the property will
in due course of time pass into the
hands of the Atlantic and Birmingham
people. who have evidenced an mclina-
ton to cooperate with the citizens
at Brunswick in making this city the
greatest port on the south Atlantic
coast
In the meantime it may be well to
remember that extended litigation
makes extended work for lawyers and
that extended work for lawyers also