Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-15

holders on Jan. IS. reached the super for court Friday when quo warranto proceedings were brought before Judge Joel H. Reed in New London by H. H. Gallup of this city and others asso- ciated with him calling upon Joseph T. ". Perkins and Charles $. Eaton to show cause why they2are exercising the rights of offices of directors of the belt company.
 Judge Reed has named Thursday, Feb. 27, as the time for a hearing on the quo warranto proceedings.
 One alignment of stockholders has elected Mr. Perkins president and the ether reelected MT. Gallup to the presidency, the position that he has held for many years The Perkins party is now in possession of the of fees tannery anu pelt shop on North Main street
 One set of officers elected comprises Robert W. Perkins, Norwich, presi- dent; J. T. Meader, Boston. vice pres ident; C. $. Eaton, Norwich, secre tary and treasurer. These men with e F. Coogan, Pittsfeld. Mass, and Charles D. Gallup, Norwich, make up the directors.
 The other set of officers consists of H. H. Gallup, Norwich, president; Jo- siah G. Bridge, Newton, Mass, vice president: c. $. Eaton, Norwich. treas urer; E. B. Miner, Norwich, secretary and assistant treasurer. With Hugh Blackledge and Charles D. Gallup, 10th of Norwich. these make up the directors.
 The balance of power, according to both, sides. rests in certain stock voted by the Thames National bank at the annual meeting in favor ot MT. Per kins and his associates, bus which MT. Gallup claims the right to vote. Since last Saturday, Mir. Gallup said on Friday, he has been locked out of the offices and shop of the concern with police officers stationed at the cff1ce and shop to keep him from en- | ttring. Last Monday when he went to the offices, he said, Mir. Perkins was there and denied him admission be- ycnd a partition that had been built. Unon demand. MT. Gallup said, his personal check book and other per sonal effects were handed over to him and he left the place.
 l The annual meeting Of the stock 1 holders was held on Jan. IS, at which according to Mir. Gallup, he had 3S7 voting shares to 3S5 for the other side without the shares which both were l claiming to vote. When the disputed shares were counted with his oppo- nents they elected their directors and officers.
 On the S0th of January at a meet iEg held at the office at the plant, the Gallup officers were elected.
 Last Saturday morning, Feb. s, MT Gallup states that as president he called stockholders meeting at whicI there were 583 shares represented. The I meeting had to be held outside the 'iffce building as it was locked agains | them. In opposition to his call fCl
 he meeting. noti Es had been sent ou
 70 the stockholders by MT. Perkins di, -ecting them to disregard the meesi on the ground that MT Gallup had n, authority to call it. Those attendin; the meeting were MT. Gallup. NIT Bridge, Samuel G. Norman of Jewet City, Frank 7. Mcclure and Hadla A. Hull counsel for Mir. Gallup.
 When seen Friday, MT. Perkins sai,
 that the whole difficulty between Nil Gallup and his former associates, rep resented by MT. Coogan, MT. Meade and MT. Perkins, who have been act
 ing as finance committee for the com
 pany since 1911 was brought about b.
 an attempt on the part Of Mir. Gallu to wrest control Uf the company froT
 them and to elect the board, Eeade
 by himself, which he now declares {
 have been elected. The whole ques
 tion is a legal one, he said furthei
 and rests upon the right of q Dled8
 to vote stock which has actually bee
 transferred to the pledgee's name. mi answered by a court 15lling after a re
 view of the evidence.
 The legal papers filed in the cour
 Friday were the following:
 To the Honorable Superior Court, nov
 in session at New London, in an
 for New London County:
 Comes Hadlai i. Hull, esquire
 states attorney, within and for tn county of New London, who in thi
 behalf prosecutes in his own prope
 person and at the relation of Henr
 H. Gallup, Hugh Blackledge and Ed
 win B. Miner, all of the town of Nor
 Tich, in said county, and said Hug
 Blackledge, William Matthews an
 Charles Flint all of said Norwich, co
 partners in business under the nam
 of Hugh Blackledge & company, Jo siah G. Bridge of Newton, in the stat
 of Massachusetts, Samuel G. Norma
 of Jewett City, in said county, Mar B. Hale of Ellington, Conn.,, Charles
 Storms of Norwich Conn, Leig
 Harrison of Newark, in the state (
 New Jersey, the Fidelity Trust com pany, a corporation organized and ey isting under and by virtue of the law
 of the state of New Jersey, located , Newark, in said state of New Jerse, ) as it is the executor and trustee of th
 estate of William $. James, deceaset l Walter H. Gallup of said Norwich an Margaret Geer of said Jewett City an gives the court to understand and . informed that:
 1. The Norwich Belt Manufa ctul ing company, incorporated, is now an
 for many years past has been a col
 poration organized and existing undt
 and by virtue of the laws of the sta' , of Connecticut, and is located in sai
 town of Norwich, in said state Sai corporation was regularly incorpora ed and organized under the statu laws of this state in the year 1901, ar : has carried on it's corporate busine! . from that time to the present; it llS : power to elect five directors for il management of the affairs of said col poration. Said corporation has a cal
 ital stock divided into ten lundre
 forty mine outstanding shares,
 which six hundred and ninety al = preferred shares of the par value :. one hundred dollars ($100) each ar { l three hundred nIty Sndres or coHlHlC stock of the par value of one hundrt dollars (s1O0) each. Each class , stock has voting power.
 2. Said relators are now and we
 at the time of the annual 1919 stocl holders meeting herein complained
 and ever since have been stockholde of said corporation, owning the nun f. Der of shares of the capital stock T said corporation set opposite the r : spective names of said relators (beiT Q more than a najority of the outstanC e ing shares of the capital stock of Sd f | cornorat tionl as follows: