The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-10
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
:. Calvert Coal and Iron Company. ct. al.


WinsIow ason. har.es +. Haines. ct. al.
No. l2j2 Equity. In the Circuit sCourt for
Garrett County, Nd
The object of this suit is to procure 4 de
cree aunUliing, cancelling and setting aside
a pretended deed from the Calvert Coal and
Iron Company to one Charles o. Beaumont,
Trustee, dated 10th day OF May, 1902. and re-
corded in Liber Z. Z. 4. No. 30, folio 5g1. one
OF the IaEd records Of Garrett county. Mary
land.
The bin states that a certain Robert A
Parrish. of Philadelphia Pennsylvania was
in his lifetime, the owner of 1915 shares of
the capital stock of the plaintiff Calvert oal
and Iron Company. which whole capital
stock CONTESTED of 5000 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. q" containing 900 a ores
more or less, and is i'll possession thereof and
has been in exclusive and continuous Dos
session of the same for a long term of wears
under deed from Joseph 4. Thornton trus-
zee, duly recorded in Liber W. II. 7. No. IL.
folio d, one Of the Land Records Of Garrett
county, copy Of said deed being filed with
the bill marked plaintiffs Exhibit A. that
on the End of February. 1891. the said Robert
\. Parish. being owner OF the aforesaid
shares OF stock made and executed his last
VIII and testament; on or al out the 10th day
OF March, 1871, died without having revoked
the same and said win was duly admitted to
probate by the Register of Wills of the CITY
ana county of Philadelphia, Penn, and is
Register of Wills in VIII Book No. ~, page
5Sl, and that Letters Testamentary were
granted thereon unto the plaintiff. Marie
Gaul, the eXecutriX therein named, ana Quiy
certified copies of said win and certificate
of the grant of said letters are filed with the
Dlll marked Plaintiffs Exhibits Band c."
respectively. The BIN further charges that
the said defendants. Winslow Mason. Charles
f. Haines, Charles 0. Beaumont trustee,
ana the other defendants whose names to
| the COmplainants are unknown have con
SDlfeQ together with the intent
to fraudulently, illegally and unlawfully de-
prlNe the cOmplainantS of their right and
title to the aforesaid tract of land and charge
that the said defendants above named and
the other defendants whose names to the
plaintiifS 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
TIL ana have assumed to exercise the fran
cnlseS tnereof. all OF which acts on the part
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, purportlng
TO nave been executed by WinslOw Mason
fraudulently representing himself to be the
President and Charles +. Haines, fraudu-
lently 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 y.
Beaumont, trustee and which deed is re-
corded in Liber E. z. T. No. 40, folio 5g7, one
of the Land Records of Garrett county and
copy of which is filed with the bill marked
"Plaintitf's Exhibit d. is fraud and con-
stitutes cloud upon the title of Calvert Coal
and Iron Company to said land. the stock of
which corporation with the exception of
twenty-h 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
ana Cancelled by the Court of Equity, will
deprive the complainants of all their rights
ana interests of every kind to which they
are entitled i'll said property and will strip
the compartments of all said property and
Will beStOw the same upon the said defend
| ants above named and their co-conspirators.
whose names are to the complainants un-
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
.. 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 prays that the said pretended
deed supporting 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 f. Haines, its pretended attorney in
fact and agent, to the said Charles o. Beau
mont, trustee, may be annulled, cancelled
U,
general relief and for an order of publication
against the said Winslow Mason, Charles F.
Haines and Charles o. Beaumont, trustee,
who are non residents of this State, and also
an order of publication according to law. re
quiring 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 bill and warning
them to be and appear in this Court, in per-
son or by solicitor on or before a certain day
to be named therein to show cause, if 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 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 dayof March, 1901, 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 18th day of March
next, to show cause, if any they have, why a
decree ought not to be passed as prayed.
Z. Il. TOWER, Clerk
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