The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-02

Suit was brought Saturday morning
in the Circuit Court by Mrs. Robert
white Pearce, Mrs. Albert A. Latta,
trading and doing business as Wake
field & Co., Bertha Cooper Hewitt and
Mrs. Lento G. Davis against the Mays
Vile Water Company and the Mays
vile Gas Company asking that a re-
ceiver be appointed to manage the af-
fairs Of the Maysville Water COMPANY
and pay off the debts against the con-
cern.
The plaintiffs state that they are
owners of 562 shares of the 1000
shares Of common stock of the water
company.
They further state that the Mays
vile Gas Company for many months
past has furnished to the water COM
pany the power by which water is
pumped from the river into the mains
OF the company and that the water
company has no equipment, nor is any
equipment available for use by it in
pumping water. except such as is fur
nished by the Maysville Gas Company
and that in the event that the gas CON-
pany should shut off its power and dis
continue its power, the defendant wa
ter company would be without means
OF furnishing water to the property
owners and citizens of Maysville and
that the city would be wholly without
fire protection and its citizens subject
ed to all Of the inconveniences and
diseases which would follow.
The plaintiffs state that the defend
ant water company owes the defendant
gas company approximately $1,000 for
power and further states that the gas
company is threatening to discontinue
service because of the debt.
The plaintiffs further set out the
State Board Of Health litigation and
the threatened criminal procedure of
that board. They also set forth the
$4,000 agreement with the city to
furnish water, the payment of which
would become due upon the failure to
furnish the same and further state
that there are many outstanding debts
notes and other obligations and that
steps are being taken by the various
/ creditors to subject the property OF
the water company to their respective
claims and that the steps threatened
by said creditors, the criminal prose
cutions threatened and the threatened
action Of the gas company to cut of
the power, will result in the forced
discontinuance Of the business of the
water company, They say the com.
pany's property as going concern is
of value of $25O,0OO but that in the
event 1t should discontinue its opera.
tion its property would not be of suf.
ficient value to pay the debts thereof
and that the discontinuance of the
business would cause grave disaster
to the citizens and property owners oi
the city Of Maysville and would en-.
danger the property and health and
destroy the value Of the stock owned
by the plaintiffs.
They set forth that in the event a
receiver should be appointed all of the
threatened actions and disasters can
he prevented and that the receiver can
operate the plant in its present condi-
tion, pay the gas company for power
and the other debts and earn a sub
stantial profit thereon.
Their prayer is for temporary re-
straining order restraining the gas
company from discontinuing its serv.
ices, for permanent injunction and
that a receiver be appointed by the
court to take charge Of all of the prop
erty and conduct the business under