Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-19
MILLIONAIRE CASE
 ARGUMENTS WILL BE
 MADE IN TOMBSTONE
Suit of Claud A. Spreckles Against the Federal Planta- ton Company will be Start ed in Superior Court Today.

TOMBSTONE, Jan. 1s.-(SpeciaD- There will be no criminal business be fore the court tomorrow, the jury hay ing been excused until Thursday. The court will be busy during the entire day in hearing the argument for the appointment for a receiver of the Federal Plantation Co. as made by Claus A. Spreckles. This will be 9 preliminary skirmish of the coming battle between the millionaires, Claus A. Spreckles on one side and W. H. Cook, Alexander Mackay and the Federal Plantation company on the other.
 An effort was made on Saturday last to have the case transferred to Coco nino county by the attorneys for the defense but the motion was denied by the court.
 The question for the appointment of a receiver for the company will be argued by Messrs. Ellinwood, Ross and Matthews for the plaintiff, Claus A. Spreckles and the defense will be represented by X. NJ Stoves, Of Coconino county, and Fred A. Sutter of Bisbee.
 Suit was filed here a. few months ago by the plaintiff asking for the dissolution of the company and for an accounting and the appointment of the receiver. In the complaint Spreck- les alleges that he purchased S4O,oO0 acres of land in Cuba and that it was afterwards transferred to the compa- ny and that he has been compelled to pay the taxes and other costs of the land and that the defendants, Cook and Mackay, refuse to pay him back any of the money that he has ad- vanced or to sell out their interests to him or buy his and that it is for the best interests that the company be dissolved and the land sold as the company has outlived its usefulness. A petition has also been filed with the corporation commission at Phoe- nix asking for the dissolution of the corporation but no action will be talk en there until the case here has been settled. A jury trial has been de manded but it is not expected that the case will be tried for some time yet and when it is it promises to be one of the hardest fought cases that has ever been tried in the history of the county. W. H. Cook, one of the de- fendants, is one of the most promin- ent attorneys of New York state and is the author of the publication Of Cook on Corporations" He will be here with others to look after the de fense while other prominent attorneys from the east will be here to assist the local attorneys for the plaintiff.
 Prominent Case Decided.
 Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the case of the Doug las Sparks Realty Go. vs. Aurelia B. Sparks ct al, which was tried in the superior court, several weeks ago. The case was brought by the plain tiffs through their attorney, John F. Ross, to prevent the defendant from levying on property of the company under an execution issued by the su- perior court in favor of the defendant, Aurelia B. Sparks, in her case in which she obtained judgment against John M. Sparks for about $5,00O and which now amounts to nearly sS,O00.
 The property on which she. sought 10 have the execution levied is situ ated in Douglas and is valued from S15,00Q to S20,000. The case was tried several weeks ago and was talk en under advisement by the court until yesterday In the written opin- ion rendered by Judge Lockwood the court held that the realty company