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Show jfSI CACHE SUGAR 'itllUECOUiEO k -itnesses Say Hendrickson Admitted Purchase Was for Cornpany. v ;illiam J- Funk and Frank n Woods Tell of Conversation. n,0y to the effect that John A. -son admitted in a meeting of i: r'"der3 of tho West Cache Sugar that the contract for purchase r'3nLelit plant was obtained for and M "of the West Cache company Produced in yesterday's proceedings ! Tdse W- H- Bramcl f the Th'rd t U ' '!. court in trial of the suit brought '"' West Cache Sugar company to :8 from J- A. Hendrickson and Lo-s'e'x Lo-s'e'x sto'nl certain alleged undeclared 'of promotion, t0Sether with dam" " .tin" concerned in the testl- "d at LOKan on June 1, 1918 !' .ml of the company had passed r I Knicht Investment company to F 1 5 Voollev. Two witnesses, Wll-V Wll-V Funk and" Frank H. Woods, both - F Zs testified as to a conversa-J'lSHSSfli conversa-J'lSHSSfli Mr. Hendrickson and Mr. f "-h occurred at the meeting , . 'reference to the contract. LuyTold- ., l..fi to state tho conversation, the f'-'Line up to the conversation there L report submitted from the au-t'. au-t'. and Mr. Wooiley made a P;i that the report be adopted, r'Vjt fiat time Mr. Hendrickson r,.V..r! he says. "I object to 'ti.-u. Ki-ntlciui-n.- llo s.ivs. -y0u armors ,,,, .r(, .ul(, lo cram a lot of lies down vou." and ; ,.,s''ys' c:" l'r"vc that that reel re-el is wrong, absolutely wrong." and 0 rra.-hcl in a baskvt that he had the ,. a.ul ho pulls out a document and he sayn. "I van prove bv lMa document that that report Is false" ana h says ' will read it." and Mr. W ool ey nskod him. "What is that ,0, Koi"K 'o read?" an.l he savs. lh.it is the original contract with the Knight Sugai company." and Mr. oollcy says "1 that the prop- t . r, 13 that tho contract between be-tween the West Tache bugar com-. com-. pany and the Knight Sufar .company?" 1 es, ,s,r. ne saySi ..jg (nat "t property of the West Cache Sugar coin-' pany?" "Yes, sir." He RaySj "Was that made for and on behalf of the est Cache Sugar company?" "Yes sir. Xow that Is the statement of Mr. Hendrickson. Mr. Wooiley says, Let the. clerk read that," and 'he took It and gave it to the clerk, and It was read to the meeting. Is "Warm Conversation." Mr. Woods testified that he was at the stockholders' meeting and that Mr Hendrickson Hen-drickson and Mr. Woollev were there Lid you hoar any conversation between Mr. W ooiley and Mr. Hendrickson at that meeting?" asked counsel for the plain- "Prelty warm conversation between them two. answered the witness Asked lo recount what he remembered of the conversation, Mr. Woods said: Well, when the auditor's report was read Mr. Wooiley motioned to adopt it, and Mr. Hendrickson objected, said he thought said it was false, not true, and that he had the documents to prove that it was not true, and proceeded to started to prove this. and reached over in a little basket or receptacle ho had there and pulled out a paper and was going to read the same, and Mr. Woollev intercepted, and asked Mr. Hendrickson what that was. Mr. Hendrickson savs: "This is the contract lor the Knight ?ugar company." words to that effect. "Of what?" asked counsel for the defendants. Of the sugar factory, and Mr. Wool-ley Wool-ley says: "Is that the property of the West Cache Sugar company?" Mr. Hendrickson says "Yes." And thev had other words between them, and Mr. Wooiley then let the secretary read it. "Well, can you give what else -was said, Mr. Woods?" asked plaintiffs counsel. "Was that contract was it executed exe-cuted on behalf of the West Cache Sugar company?" words to that effect; ef-fect; something to that effect. Mr. Hendrickson says it was answered in the affirmative. At this point counsel for the defendants asked that the record show that the witness wit-ness hesitated about twenty seconds, j Counsel for the plaintiff expressed wllling-' wllling-' ness that it might show thirty seconds of I hesitancy. "AU right, make it thirty," I said counsel for the defendants. "I think j it was about thirty." ; Hesitation Is Recorded. Under cross-examination Mr. "Woods ; admitted that he had heard Mr. Funk testify. Neither witness would admit, however, that he had gone through any process of refreshing his memory. Woods said that he had not thought much about it since the meeting, but that he and others had lantrhfirf jihont it considerably immediately after the meeting. Counsel for the defendants won from one of the witnesses of the day, Abraham Jorgensen, admission that he had regarded re-garded the enterprise for a factory as abandoned after the site west of Smith-field Smith-field was given up. He said he had said as much to Mrs. Hendrickson, wife of the defendant. Three witnesses subpenaed for the day that he had ever heard Mr. Hendrickson Hendrick-son say he had abandoned the enterprise. enter-prise. Other witnesses who testified were H. J. Fredrick, J. E. Greaves, A. F. Elggren and Elias Larson. Thre witnesses subpenaed for the day failed to appear and it was necessary to adjourn at 3:30 o'clock until 10 o'clock this morning, when the trial will be resumed. re-sumed. Two of the three witnesses who did not appear were reported to be ill with influenza. Counsel for the plaintiff explained ex-plained that a reported fresh outbreak of the epidemic in the northern part of the state was making it difficult to get witnesses wit-nesses when wanted, but that every effort would be made to avoid delay of the trial for lack of witnesses. |
