The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-10-19
LEGAL NOTICE
STATE OF GEORGIA,

NOuHCy.
The petition of McCarty- ohnstone
Company, a corporation shows:
l. Your petitioner is corporation
heretofore created and organized I'M
der charter issued by the Superior
Court in and for Ben Hill County, by
Judgment, order and decree of said
court, on the LIST day of April, A. D.,
1912.
2. The capital stock of said corpo-
ration is ten thousand ($l0,00000)
dollars, divided into shares of $4,000
each.
3. At meeting of the stockhold-
ers of said McCarty- Johnstone Com
pany, duly called for the purpose OF
passing the resolution hereinafter re-
ferred to, on the End day of October,
1917, a resolution was~~enanimously
adopted by vote of all the owners of
the capital stock of your petitioner,
resolving that the corporation should
surrender its charter and franchise to
the state and be dissolved as a corpo-
ration. A copy of said resolution as
appearing from the minutes of said
meeting, duly certified by your petit
toners secretary, is hereto attached
and marked Exhibit A."
4. Petitioner shows that such dis
solution may be allowed without in
justice to any stakeholder of said
company, or to any person having
calims or demands of any character
against said corporation
WHEREFORE, petitioner prays
that the court accept the surrender of
its charter and franchise and order its
dissolution.
Wall & Grantham, -
Attorneys for Petitioner.
State of Georgia,
County of Ben Hill
! Personally. before me, an officer of
said state and county duly authorized
by law to administer oaths, appeared
James L. McCarty, who on oath says
that he is president of McCarty-J ohm
stone Company, a corporate II organ
lied and doing business under the
laws of said state, with its principal
Office in the county of Ben Hill, and
that the facts stated in the foregoing
petition are true
James L. McCarty
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this End day of October, 1917.
Chas. w. Russell,
N. P. Ben Hill County, Georgia.
EXHIBIT "A'
At a Injecting of the stockholders Of
the McCarty-J ohnstone Company, a
corporation organized and doing bust
ness under. the laws of Georgia, held
on the End day of October, 1917, for
the special purpose of considering the
matter of ,.surrendering the charter
and franchise of the said company to
the state, and dissolving said company
as corporation, and providing for the
continuance of the business of said
corporation under the firm name of
McCarty-J ohnstone Company, said
firm to be partnership composed
OF James L. McCarty and Guy {.
tombstone, there was present at said
meeting all of the stockholders of said
company, to-wit:. James L. McCarty
and Guy c. tombstone, being the only
stockholders of said company.
The following resolution was unani-
mousiy adopted by vote of ali the
owners of the capital stock of said
BE 1t Resolved, That this company
cease business as a corporation, pay
all debts and obligations due by it,
and divide the net assets remaining
the stockholders of the COM
pany, and that the president of Nc
Carly tombstone Company be, and he
hereby is, authorized, directed and
to employ attorneys for
the company for the purpose of filing
a petition to the Superior Court in
and for Ben Hill county, praying that
said company should be allowed to
surrender its charter and franchise to
the State and be dissolved as corpo-
ration"
l, Guy c. tombstone, Secretary of
McCarty-J ohnstone Company, do
hereby certify that the above and
resolution was adopted by
the unanimous vote of all the stock
holders of said McCarty-Iohnstone
End day of October, 1917, at the prin-
cipal Office of said corporation, in the
city of Fitzgerald, county of Ben Hill,
state of Georgia, as shown by its min
utes of said date.
This End day of October 1917.
Guy c. Johnstone.
The foregoing petition read and con-
sidered: Let this. petition be filed in
the Office of the clerk of the Superior
Court in and for Ben Hill County.
Let hearing be had on said pc
tition at the court house in the county
of Ben Hill, said state, on the goth
day of October, 1917, at the hour of
eleven A. M
Let copy of this petition and order
be published once week for four
weeks in the newspaper wherein sher-
ifs sales in and for the county of
Ben Hill are published, the costs
thereof to be paid by this petitioner.
Signed this, the 3rd day of October,
1917.
D. A. R. CRUM,
Judge Superior Court, Cordele Judi
cial Circuit.
Filed in office, this the 3rd day of
October, 1917.
4t D. w. M. Whitley, Clerk.