The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16
THE APPELLATE COURT
UNITED STATES JUDGES MEET IN
 MONTGOMERY TOMORROW.
Win Sit in the Council Chamber and win b@ In Session About. Ten Dnys-The Pace
 Case.

The United States Circuit Court os Appeals will convene in Montgomery tomorrow morning for the purpose of hearing all appealed cases from the l district courts of Alabama.
 Charles H. Lednum. clerk of the court arrived in Montgomery yester- day from Atlanta and has arranged for placed there for the convenience OF | tinguished court will sit In the Cham Der of the City Council of Montgom- cry. Handsome furniture has been placed there for the convenience of the Judges. The private office of Mayor Thomas H. Carr has been ten- dered the judges for use as their pri- vate office.
 The Court of Appeals will be com posed of Judge Don A. Pardee and Judge D. D. Shelby of the Court of Appeals and Judge W. T. Newman of the District Court of Georgia, who sits in the place of Associate Judge Mccormick, wno is unable to be pres ent.
 United States Marshall L. J. Bryan yesterday announced the appointive officers of the court A. P. Wilson was appointed court crier. H. H. McLe- more. R. conklin Mccall and w. H. Murphy as bailiffs and Robert Glass. COIOTeu, VIII az court messenger.
 The court will hold its sessions from II a. m. to p. m. and will set about ten days.
 One of the most important cases. which will come before the court is the appeal of John W. Pace. the first of the peonage convictions. It fs probable that the cases will go over, although Assistant United States Diss trict Attorney Sternfield has prepar. ed lengthy brief for the cons;1sra. tion of the court.
 The judges and Mir. Lednum will stay at the Glenmore Hotel.
 Lawyers File . Complaint.
 A bill was filed yesterday in the City Court of Montgomery. in Equity. by the law firm of Steiner. Crum 6 Well against the Alabama Cotton Pro- ducts Company, corporation, and Charles E. Kimball of New Jersey. Paul Jones. L. T. Hubbell and A. R. Erskine of New York, Allen Fleming of Atlanta and F. H. Fillmore. Jr., and William E. Hooker of Montgomery.
 The bill alleges that the Alabama Cotton Products Company Is indebted to the complainants in the sum of S2.5o0 for legal services. and that the bill in the City Court in Equity recent ly filed by MT. Kimball and others against tho Alabama Cotton Products Company was filed for the purpose of obtaining the appointment of a re- ceiver of the assets of the Cotton Pro- ducts Company and to enjoin it's cred itors from interfering with its business and properties. 1t Is also alleged that the complainants in that bill were all stockholders and officers and directors of the Cotton Products Company, and that William E. Hooker, whs was ap- pointed as receiver was its general manager, and that the effect of the fil- ing of tho bill and the appointment of the receiver hereunder was to hinder and delay the complainants and other creditors of the Cotton Products Com pany in the collection of their claims and demands. and was fraudulent and void as to them.
 The blll prays that the proceeding by Mir. Kimball and others, and the ap- pointment of the receiver under that bill, be vacated, and that a receiver be appointed under this bill to take charge of all the assets of the Alabama Cotton Products Company until the further order of the court.