Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-12
BREWING FIRM
MAY DISSOLVE
RECEIVER ASKED FOR MAlER
& ZOBELEIN
SUIT FILED AGAINST WIDOW
George ZobeIeIn, Treasurer of Con-
cern, Demands an Accounting.
Alleges Maers Obtained
Stock lrregularly

A suit which bids fair to dissolve the
Maier & Zobelen corporation was filed
yesterday in the superior court by
George Zobelein, president and treasur-
er of the Maier & Zobelein Brewing
company, who asked that a receiver
counting obtained, the copartnership
dissolved and the property sold. The
entire action is based on an alleged
fraud on the part of members Of the
Maier family and nearly all the male
members of the Zobelein family are
mentioned as plaintiffs in the suit.
The action is aimed against the recent
installation of members of the Mater
family as stockholders in the company.
These stockholders, it is alleged, OBJ
tained their blocks of stock quietly
and with a view to deception and fraud,
and George zobelein contends that
some of the profits of the concern have
been held back from him.
The trouble dates back more than
five years and the entire history OF the
firm is given in the complaint which
contains 81 pages of closely type
written allegations.
Sues Mrs. Maier
The complaint is fled against Mary
Maier, executrix of the estate of the
late Joseph Maier. George zobelein,
Edward, Philip and ]. S. Zobelein are
the plaintiffs while other defendants
mentioned with the Maier estate are
]. f. Maier. C. R. Maier, Simon Maier,
Ed. Golfer, F. Rademacher and G.
Thurner.
Joseph Maier, whose widow is made
defendant to the suit, entered the brew
ing business in Los Angeles in 1889. Al
that time, Zobelein and his partner
were operating the Philadelphia Brew
ing company and Maier bought a half
share and became Zobelein's partner
The partnership continued until 1892.
when both brewers considered it advan-
tageous for the company, since its bust
to form a corporation and in order to
conform to the state law, each donated
two shares of stock to three employees
of the firm. These men were Rade-
macher, Golfer and Thurner. Both
partners also gave a small number of
shares to their wives and thus the re-
quisite number of stockholders for the
incorporation was secured.
Year after year. the partners held
their annual meeting, but only Mailer
and zobelein ever held offices. Thurner
was the bookkeeper and appeared at
all meetings and sat by, while Maler
would elect himself president and
treasurer for one term and zobelein
would take the same honors at the next
melting of the board.
Origin Of Trouble
The trouble started In 1900 At that
time. according to the allegations of
Zobelein, Maier secretly gave the shares
of stock which had formerly been
decided to his wife, to his eldest son.
Zobelein hearing of this did the same
with his wifes stock, giving 1t to one
of his children.
At the next meeting, however, came
the real trouble. Young Mailer is al
legged to have given two shares Of his
stock to two of his relatives and to
have them announce his intention of
being candidate for officer in the
company
zobelein Immediately went to the em-
ployes who held stock and is said TO
have warned them not TO transfer their
stock. but he was informed that the
stock had already been given to Maier
From that time on the trouble was