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Show BRUBAKER SUITUP Hearing Begins in the Injunction In-junction Suit Against the Company. The hearing of the Injunction; suit filed some time ago by the Br u baker-Campbell baker-Campbell Hardware company against Charles E. Brubaker and the National Bank of the Republic, was commenced com-menced this morning before Judge Morse. The complainant company is seeking to restrain Brubaker from disposing dis-posing of seventy-three shares of stock owned by him and placed in escrow with. the bank. The only witness placed on the stand this morning was J. W. Edmunds. Through him it was sought to show the value of the stock and certain allegations alle-gations made in the bill of complaint. J.. W. Reed, one of the stockholders of the company yesterday filed suft in the District court against Brubaker. the banking company and the hardware hard-ware company. He asserts that an injunction in-junction should be Issued restraining the sale of the stock and that Bru-j Bru-j baker should return $505 alleged to have been paid him by the company. Reed alleges that J. W. Merrill. J. G. Campbell and J. W. Edmunds held a pretended meeting of the directors of the company, that no notice was given the complainant, and that a resolution was adopted at the meeting directing the purchase of seventy-three shares of the company's stock from Brubaker. In accordance with the resolution It Is said, the meeting executed a note for $7300 and the shares were deposited In escrow with the banking institution. It Is further averred that the defendants defend-ants on February 7. 1905. pafd Brubaker Bru-baker $505 without authority. |