The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-30
ANOTHER SUIT VS.
 KN|GHT-YANCEY Allen & Bell Represent a
 Canadian Bank BANK SEEKING S2OO,O00 Total Now Amounts to Two Millions and Others Expected-The Case
 Will Hardly Be Tried
 Next Month
BANK SEEKING S2OO,OOO

Decatur, March 29.-(Specia1 )-Still another suit against the Louisville and Nashville railroad by creditors of the
 KnightYancey company of Decatur, the bankrupt cotton firm that failed last spring for about $5,000,000, has
 been filed here in the Morgan county
 law and equity court by the Canadian
 Bank of Commerce of Canada through
 their attornies. Allen & Bell of Bir-
 mingham. This suit Is to recover $200,- 900, this bank claiming they had paid
 out this much money on drafts which were fraudulent and set up the plea that the railroad company conived to
 defraud them.
 This last suit together with the suits filed a few days ago here against the Southern and the Louisville and Nash vile roads by Italian creditors of
 Knight, Yancey & Co.,, will likely be
 removed to the United States court at Huntsville within few days, as were the suits filed here some weeks ago by English and German creditors. The
 suits which are now filed against the Southern and the Louisville and Nash vile railroads by English, German and Italian creditors and by the Canadian Bank of Commerce will amount to a total of $2,000,000, or over, and as a
 total make one of the largest suits ever filed in the courts of Alabama 1t seems that the creditors of Knight. Yancey & Co. are anxious that these suits against the railroads should be tried in Decatur in the law and equity court, as all of them have originally
 been filed here. The railroad com panies seem just as anxious that these Len ffe eI, l. 4x.tz t,. I-...@ @zI States court at Huntsville. Just why this state of affairs no one who is In
 authority is ready to say. Among the lawyers of the Decatur bar it is be- lieved that these suits will not be tried l in the term of United States court which convenes in Huntsville next
 month, but that they will not be tried
 until this coming fall, possibly at some date more remote even than fall. A representative of German cotton firm was in Decatur yesterday. He said his firm was caught for several thousand dollars and that their bills of lading were over the Ohio and Msss sipp railroad by Memphis and Pensa- cola. As matter of fact the Ohio and Mississippi railroad does not enter Pensacola, but the representative con tended that the bills of lading that his firm had in their possession read that way.
 It is talked here that the suits which have but recently been filed against
 the railroads is only fair commence ment, that at least as many other suits are likely to be filed and that other railroads besides the Southern and the
 Louisville and Nashville are likely to be involved.
 That the railroads will not be ready for a hearing in these cases when court meets in Huntsville next month l.xr faa hot Tttd doro John c. Eyster of New Decatur, attor |ney for the Louisville and Nashville.
 who will be one of the chief counsels
 in these suits, is at this time contem
 plating a trip to Europe in the interest of his company in these damage suits.