| Show NEWSPAPER SQUABBLE Owners of Two Memphis Papers Are Having a Legal Battle Memphis Tenn Dec 8About six 1 weeks lago W A Collier M W Connell and Nathan Greeley began the publication e publica-tion of a daily paper In this city called The Avalanche The Commercial Appeal filed an application appli-cation for an injunction restraining them from using the name Avalanche on the ground that it had acquired the sole right to uSe that title when it purchased pur-chased the name good wil and franchise of the AppealAvalanche at a sheriffs sale The application for an injunction has not yet been brought to trial but the defendants Collier Connelly and Greeley filed a him in court stating that they were operating under the charter of the old Avalanche company which was consolidated wIth the Appeal company com-pany in 1890 and claimed to have a right to use any name they saw fit Today Jacob Fink J B Myrick and about twenty other creditors of the old Avalanche and Appeal company filed a bill In the chancery court charging Col Her Connelly and Greeley with being j engaged in a Conspiracy to defraud and I with having by unlawful means secured se-cured the stocks and asseits of the two I consolidated companies named The defendants de-fendants are alleged to be Insolvent and the court is asked to appoint a receiver for and Seize the property of the news paper they are publishing called The Av lalandhe and turn ut over to the creditors of the Avalanche and Appeal companies The total claims of the creditors are said to be In tho neighborhood of 150 000 W A Collier was the president of the AppealAvalanche before It was sold by the sheriff S |
