Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-18
COLLISION CHARGED
AGAINST BANKRUPT
Creditors of Georgia Manufactur-
ing and Public Service Corpora.
ton Charge Collision With the
Trust Company of Georgia.

Creditors of the Georgia Manufacture
ing and Public Service Co, the $1,000
900 corporation of Marietta, filed objec-
tons here Thursday in the bankruptcy
division of the United States court in
which are made charges of collision be-
tween the Trust Company or Georgia
and the bankrupt corporation.
fight is on over the election of
trustee to administer the corporations
large estate. Certain of the creditors
have had the power of attorney dele
gated to Attorneys Moore and Pomeroy
for the purpose of having them vote
in the election of trustee. Others have
delegated similar power to Attorneys
Eye, Peoples, Bryan and Jordan.
This delegation of power of attorney
is being contested in both instances.
Fifty or more OF the claimants have
filed through Tye, Peoples, Bryan and
Jordan objections in which they say:
THE giving of said powers of attor-
ney to said Moore & Pomeroy or either
Trust Company Of Georgia, its officers
of them was procured through the
or agents or attorneys not in the inter-
est of a fair administration of the as
sets of the bankrupt and with the view
of so far as reasonably possible sub
serving the interests of a fair admins
tration of the assets of all the credit
ors of said bankrupt, but collusively
and with the design and for the purpose
of having elected trustee for SAID
bankrupt in the interest of the Trust
Company of Georgia, the latter being
the mortgage of properties Of said
bankrupt in a very large sum, TO wit:
$500. 900 or more, and being in posi-
ton. unless careful administration or
said secured creditor, to absorb practi-
callv the whole of said estate"
The Atlanta Envelope Co.. in filing OBJ
factions TO certain claims, says that they
are merely for the purpose Of allowing
Attorneys Tye, Peoples, Bryan and Jor-
dan to participate in the election OF
trustee.
1t declares: l-..-,,--,
WORKING IN BANKRUPT's lNIER-
ESTS.
Attorneys offering said claims for al
lowance for voting purposes were work
ing in the interest of the bankrupt COM
pany and in collision with the officers and
attorneys of the bankrupt company it,
self"
II saws in another instance of evidence
that Il has introduced before the referee:
THAT the evidence OlSClOSeu lIldI thS
bankrupt. it's officers or attorneys, were
colluding with the attorneys named in
the powers for the purpose of controlling
the selection of trustee and that the
same is contrary to law
The papers filed show that seventy-nine
If the creditors of the company, whose
claims aggregate 4l,2H.73, have voted for
i'aptain f. w. Boone, OF Marietta, as
trustee. Sixty-nine, whose claims asgre-
gate $16.619.7S, have voted for James L.
Anderson.
NINE PAPERS FILED.
Objections to the election of Captain
Boone as trustee have been filed by the
Atlanta Envelope Co. through its attor-
neys, Moore & Pomeroy.
The Georgia Manufacturing and Public
Service company, until recently, supplied
Marietta with light and water.
In ALL nine separate papers were filed
in this case in the bankruptcy division
thursday. They had first been submitted
% the referee and were filed by him.