Weekly journal-miner., 1917-07-11
NEW SUIT FILED AGAINST HULL
 ESTATE
MIN RITY STOCKHOLD- FRS ASK THAT SEVEN MILLION SHARES HELD BY ESTATE BE TURNED BACK TO TREASURY.
(From Sundays paIry)

Minority StockhOlderS Tn the Hull Copper Company will again attempt to secure a redistribution of stock, this time, by suing for an injunction and judgment against s. F. Denison. administrator of the estate of the late George w. Hull, president and prin- cipal stockholder of the corporation. The new suit, filed yesterday is simi- lar to the one pending now, entitled "Wm. H. Kemp, George O. Bowman,
 Bcnj. P. Walton, Andrew Tarbett, John H. Page, stockholders of the Hull Copper Co, and other stock holders similarly situated, versus the Hull Copper Co.,, George w. Hull and C. w. Clark, trustee"
 In the suit filed yesterday, Denison IS named as the defendant, and the prayer IS addressed to the court to adJudge the company, the owner of ' ,521,727 shares of stock now in the name of George w. Hull, and to com pei Denison to surrender them for cancellation and @ to require an ac- counting on the part of the adminis- trator and (3) to require him to de- tail to the stockholders, the develop mcnt that has been done on the prop erty, and (4) to issue temporary in- junction to stop Denison from levy ing, seizing or selling" any of the property or other assets of the com pany, and (5) to require of Denison an accounting of all monies taken in and disbursed for the company while acting as administrator.
 All the plaintiffs named in the com plaint except John H. Page are resi- dents of Massachusetts; Page is a Phoenix land attorney.
 Kemp is owner of l0,500 shares, Bowman of 7S8, Walton of 15, Tar bett of 200, and Page of 1000 shares of Hull Company stock.
 Briefly, the allegations are that Hull prior to 1906, owned the King Development CO. and the Consolidat. ed King Development and Columbia Copper Mining Co.,, which possessed the claims now in litigation. The value of the claims is alleged to have been at that time under S200,000, there having been yet no development work accomplished. It is then set ID that Hull formed the copper com pany bearing his name and sold to it the claims of his other two companies at an extremely high figure, in stock of the new concern.
 It is further claimed that Hull and his associates sold a matter of 1,3S0,- l00 shares of stock to various per sons, numbering about 1000 in all, who are, for the purposes of this suit, similarly situated with the plain .iffs.
 A great deal of money was realized Dy the company, the complaint says, put not nearly all of it got into the proper hands. Some funds, 1t is all egcd, were paid out in development ,f the ground of the Cleopatra Cop per Co.,, another holding of Hull's. The plaintiffs say they have never ,een able to get an accounting from Hull or his estate. They allege that Hull held and voted 7.721.OOO shares ,f stock. and that in July, 1916. 7,- ,9S.609 shares were sold to C. w. lark. trustee.
 The document was signed by an imposing array of legal talent. List d as attorneys for the plaintiff are: \. II. Favour. J. E. Russell. Clark & lark of this city, Clifton Matthews nd Ellinwood & Ross of Bisbee.