Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-04-08

AEORGIA-Ben Hill County.
10 THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SATn NOIrNyTV

q. u. Dorfnlney, w. K. Bowen
P. H. Gaskins, Mrs Lula B. Shep.
herd, Mrs. Abba B. Ware, Mrs. E
6. Hale, E, G, Hale, j. E. Turner
A. j.. Mcdonald and the Planters
Warehouse & Loan Company, re-
specially show:
That petitioners, other than the
Planters Warehouse & Loan Com
pany are all the stockholders of said
company.
y That the Planters Warehouse &
Loan Company was Incorporated on
the - day of June, 1905, at the
March adjourned term of Irwin Su-
perior Court, copy of said petition
and order, Incorporating said COM
pany is attached hereto, marked eek
hibit A" and made a part hereof.
3.
That by reference to said order in
cooperating said Planters Warehouse
& Loan Company, it will appear that
the charter expired on the - day
of June, 1925.
Petitioners show that at the time
the original charter was granted
Fitzgerald was then included in r.
win county, Georgia.
5.
Petitioners show that at a call
meeting of the stockholders of said
company, notice of the purpose of
said meeting having been given to the
stockholders, the following resolu-
ton was duly passed, to-wit:
WHEREAS, the charter of this
company was granted by the Superior
Court of Irwin County, June $780,,
1905, at which time the City of Fitz-
gerald was embraced in said county
of Irwin, and,
WHEREAS, said charter expired
June, -, 1925, and,
WHEREAS, said company has
continued in business, in ignorance
of such expiration, and,
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the
stockholders of this Company to con-
tinue in business.
"NOW, therefore, be, and it is
hereby resolved by the stockholders
of said Planters Warehouse & Loan
Company, at meeting called for said
purpose and notice thereof having
~been given to said shareholders, that
we hereby ask that the charter Of
said Company be revived as provided
by Code Section Number 1928 O
of Parks Annotated Code of Geor-
gia."
Petitioners further show that more
than majority of the stock was rep
resented at said meeting.
Petitioners show that said corpor-
alton has continued in business since
the expiration of it's charter in ignor-
ance of such expiration
WHEREFORE petitioners file this,
their petition in the clerks office of
the Superior Court of Ben Hill Coun-
ty, and pray that after the same has
been advertised as required by law,
that the court, by proper order, re-
Vi such corporation as provided tor
in the Code of Georgia (191D, Sec
ton 1928 |, and that the property
and other rights of such corporation
shall continue in the corporation as
= so revived, and the acts and dolngss
of such corporation during the period
between the date of expiration and
the date of the order of reviver, shall
be hereby confirmed and held as the
acts and doings of the original cor
poration so revived, and that such
corporation shall be, by said order
revived. for the full period allowed
nv law for such corporations with all
rights, powers, duties and privileges
contained in the original charter.
A. ]. MCDONALD, =
ATTORNEY for Petitioners.
exhibit A"
GEORGIA-Irwin County,
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SAID COUNTY:
THE PETITION OF E. T. JAMES,
VIM. R. BOWEN. j. D. DORMlNEY
AND E. w. STETSON RESPECT
FULLY SHOWS:
1.
That they desire for themselves,
their associates, successors ana as
sign, to become incorporated under
the name and style of Planters ware
house and Loan Company.
2.
The term for which petitioners ask
to- be incorporated is twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal at the
end of that time.
3.
The capital stock of the said cor,
noration is to be Sixteen Thousand
nolIars. divided into shares OF One
Hundred Dollars each. Petitioners,
however, ask the privilege of lncreas-
ing the capital stock from time to
lime. not exceeding in the aggregate
One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Ten per cent Of the said capltal
stock of Sixteen Thousand dollars
has already been paid in.
The object of the proposed cor
noration is pecuniary profit and gain
fo it's stockholders. Petitioners pro-
nose to carry on general cotton
warehouse and commission business,
and to store, buy, and sell CONNER
ciaI fertilizers and such other mer-
chandise and supplies of every char
acter usually sold to farmers; and IN
Connection Herewith to raise, buy
and sell live stock, cotton, corn and
other farm products; and to carry on
a general wholesale and retail mer-
camille business.
They desire the power to own, pur-
chase. sell. lease, mortgage, pledge
and hypothecate real and personal
property; to borrow and loan money
and to secure the same by deco, mort
gage, hypothecation OF collaterai,
bond. note, or any chose IN actlon ;
and to issue bonds or notes, ana otner
such privileges as will De nec nee Sas