| Show 1 BeSL sues Sies peck I 1 v the case of jesse fox rox vs the beck tunnel consolidated mining 0 company wae was on in ill provo this week this is the cage in which the plaintiff brought action to recover 4 shares of J stock ock in the beck tunnel owned by him before the consolidation of the cLomp companies anies and which were sold for assessment january 12 1905 it is one of those queer cases wh wit ch ell ac casio nally find their way into the courts to be determined on principle rather than upon precedent atthe at the time of the sale tor for delinquent assess ment the certificates were in the name of three parties but it seems they were claimed by the plaintiff in the case and they were advertised ds as out standing beck tunnel stock together with all stock of the con soli dated properties one of the peculiar features of the case is that bhe the stock certificates were given as collateral on a loan of without the owner knowing whose name they ft nere ere in after the certificates had been purchased by plaintiff he failed bo to have the made so that the stock would b be 0 in his pame a and he also f failed ailed to have the stock transfer red from the beck tunnel to the beck tunnel consolidated while on the witness plaintiff said that Y 1 e did not know when he redeemed the certificates of stock nor did he know the numbers of them or the name in ili which they th eyere were issued until after they the had been sold without notify ing him of the assess ment and that he was therefore illegally deprived of his right to the the defend erts claim that they used every available means to serve notice upon the stockholders before the stock u was as sold and that they m were ere not responsible ae f for or the plaintiff not knowing kno NNing of the assess ment this is said to be the first case of the kind ever tried in tit the state |
