Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1926-07-21
SPECIAL SESSION or CIRCUIT
COURT LAST SATURDAY.


SDecial term of the Jefferson Circuit
/ Court in Charles Town Last Satur-
day. completed the hearing Of the
motion BY counsel for q number Of
+ stockholders of the international
Fruit Products Company. with one Of
its three plants located at Ransom.
and declined TO appoint q receiver
4 for the concern. Attorneys Camp
I bell and Hannis, of Martinsburg. and
Frank Beckwith, of Charles Town.
I represented the petitioners. and J.
NJ. Mason, Jr., represented the cor
poration.
/ The hearing on the appointment
of a receiver for the company. which
started during the special sitting Of
Court Saturday afternoon, followed
the granting of temporary injunc-
ton by Judge Rodgers short time
ago restraining officials of the COM
pany from selling, disposing of, or
removing any of its machinery,
books, or equipment from the plant
at Ransom. In the decree ordered
entered, Judge Rodgers modified the
injunction in such a way as to permit
and authorize the board of directors
of the company to sell the products
of the company. collect its debts,
and pay its expenses, and otherwise
to operate the concern. The original
order was not modified, however, as
to its preventing Bruce Worthing-
ton, of the corporation, from selling
stock of the company to any other
concern in which he is interested. A
drummer of the defendant to the bill
was declined by Court
Milton O. Rouss, Frank B. Robin
son, George M. Beltzhoover, Jr., j.
M. Mason, Jr., and Forrest A. Brown
were appointed as special commits
sioners by Judge Rodgers in the case
of Logan B Shut. ct al VS.. A. ID.
Goetz Company, ct al which was cali
ed up by attorneys interested. The
order naming the commissioners re-
cited the fact that the value of real
estate owned is insufficient to pay
the plaintiffs debts in five years
time. and ordered that, unless paid
in ten days from the rising of the
Court, the real estate shall be SUBJ
ject to the payment of the list of
debts enumerated in the bill, and
shall be sold, with the commissioners
acting as selling agents. Terms of
the sale, as directed by Court, shall
be one-half cash, and the balance in
two annual iRstallments with inter-
est. A $4,000 bond will be requir-
ed of the commissioners under the
order.
In the town of Harpers Ferry VS..
Edith Smith Williams. ct al, the re-
port of James M. Mason, Jr., special
commissioner, reporting the sale of
certain lot to Charles T. Smith for
$235, was filed and the sale was con-
firmed by Court.
In the Florence Lockhart VS.. Hen
~ A. Lockhart, divorce proceedings,
j. T. Porterfield. special receiver, the
defendant had filed cross bill. The
cause was referred to Charles H.
Smith, Commissioner in Chancery,
with directions 10 take the customary
dispositions and make report to the
Court.
Two reports of Special Commits
sioner t. c. Green were filed and
confirmed by Court. These were in
the cases of Harry H. Hayslett VS..
Clarence Neil Hayslett, ct al, and J.
e. Woody, ct al, VS.. Minnie NJ. Hop
kins, ct al.
The divorce proceedings of Irene
Shaeffer Miller VS.. Francis E. Miller
were referred to Charles II. Smith,
Commissioner in Chancery, for in
vestlgation and report.