The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-13

kept together Indefinitely unless
there be a complete and penitent
submission. Petitioners aver that
the executors have grossly violated
their trust in holding this estate to-
gether for more than ten years, and
it is now their purpose to hold the
whole estate against the rights of
the petitioners, and that, too, indef-
nitely unless petitioners relinQuish
their rights under the will Such
conduct is conclusive that these ex-
ecutors are unfit for their trusts, and
the rights of petitioners cannot be
preserved unless they are removed
| therefrom.
The petition describes how a GER
tain building in Atlanta, that had
! been renting for $500 per annum,
! how an $4,000 offer was arbitrarily
and arrogantly turned down, that
! the Everett-Ridley- Raglan Company
moved out, the building remained va
! cant for over six months, and only
$4,000 rental was obtained for this
| building for the. next year and a half,
after said six months vacancy. OF
how the executors spent $25, 900 re
modelling this same building into an
! office building over the protest of
petitioners, and las an Office building
it has been a failure" and not over
/ one-third the net rental has been OBJ
tanned as paid by the Everett Ridley
Raglan Company.
The petition next takes up how an
other building that should have rent
ed at 1925 per month remained va
cant for five years; ar other, $175
per month, remained vacant for a
year; another at $50 per month for
two years; another at $50 per month
vacant for three years; another, 500
per month, vacant a year; another
500 per month vacant four years;
another, with rental of 600 per
year, vacant three years. Other
{ buildings, 1925 per month, vacant
three years; store room, rental OF
I$175 per month, vacant two and
one-half years. Still another build
ing at $4,000 per annum rental re
manned vacant four and one-ha!t
years. These vacancies were AMI are
largely the result of mismanagemeG1
on the part of the executors"
IF the management of the cE2oH-
tors is permitted to continue inde.i-
nitely the value Of the property VIII
decrease instead of increase, as il
surely would under fair and just
management. When the executors
first took charge rents in Atlanta
wore much lower than when The pc
tition was filed The rents were at
first $4,000 per annum, while now,
when they should be much larger,
the executors say they We're only
$4,000 for the past year. "Sucn
waste and announcement is appall-
) inc. and if permitted to continue de-
, structive to the rights OF the petit
/ TONERS.
The only statement ever had from
! the executors had to be forced and
was not accurate say the petitioners.
Rents for December, 1894,
amounting to : ,901.25, were not ac-
counted for.
The interest coupons of $27, 500
Of bonds, amounting to $4S1.2O were
not accounted for.
| The dividend ON $1,000 stock of
| the Brown Investment Company, paid
/ by Elijah A. Brown, to the eXecu-
/ tors" etc.
The petitioners next go on to
show that the executors should have
| in their hands $90,025.5S, while the
executors contend that they have no
such sum--that the estate is needing
money and that state and county
taxes had not been paid.
The estate of Joseph +. Brown
had a large interest in the Georgia
Mining, Manufacturing and Invest
ment Company, Of which julius l.
Brown was the president. The eXecu-
! tors management of this part of the
estate was such that near the whole
of the interest of the Brown estate
was lost to that estate"
The life of Julius l.. Brown is next
depicted by the brothers and sisters
and such as idle life, 'habitual in
toxication, untitled for business, -
I "disagreeable. ''vindictive," "arbi-
trary" etc, are used and "all known
to Joseph M. Brown
I'm spite of this knowledge Jo-
seph NJ. Brown allows julius L.
Brown to practically control the
whole estate and to exercise his own
will about every matter connected
with it, Although urged to do so
he declines to attempt to correct the
waste and acknowledgement Of the es-
tate-naively suggesting that Julius
drunk has more sense than petition
ers sober.
Julius l.. Brown hectors and dom
ineers over Joseph M. Brown and
will continue to do so. He has made
and will make no effort to correct
julius l.. Brown. Indeed, JOSEPH
M. BROWN IS MORE CULPABLE
he is sober and knows that theil
failure to close the estate is a VIC.
latiOn of their trust
There are a number of other spicy
charges that could be added hers
from the petition of these brothers
and sisters, but this article suffices tC
give the general drift of the charges
to remove Mr.. Brown as an executor
of his fathers estate, and is merely
given as a news item and because a
good deal has been said about il
since he has announced for governor