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Show SKEEN TALKS ON SUGAR SUIT Salt Lake Lawyer Says Og-den Og-den Attorney Is Not Involved In-volved in Action LOGAN, April 8. In a statement issued is-sued here lrvst night, relative to the disbarment dis-barment petition filed against him. D. A. Skeen of Salt Lake and W R Skeen of ogden. stutefl emphatically Hint W St. Skeen of ond'Ti, was 111 no way in-niHd in-niHd In the matter and that 1 A Skeen of Salt Lake and himself were not partners, but that lie had merely associated D. A. Skeen In some of the business uhen he needed additional i- gal aid. J. I). Skeen who is here on business relating to the W.est Cache Irrigation project, said In speaking of the disbarment proceedings brought before the supreme court: "I am informed that George E Sanders San-ders in the papers presented to the i lerk of the Supreme court has attempted at-tempted to ie tho history of extensive exten-sive litigalioln involving not only the "Id Pingree sugar factory, formerly located "t VIsalls and Corcoran, Cel.. n.- located at Hooper. L'tah. and at Whitney, Idaho, hut also the history af the Interstate Sugar company and :hc pioneer Buaar.comnanv. ; WITHOUT LEGAL KNOWLEDGE 'Mi Sanders is not a lawyer and ap-. ap-. pears to have no conception of legal proceedings, and is wholly lacking In a i perception of right and wrong In mat- ti rs pertaining to corporate organization organiza-tion and stock s-iles ' He has no financial interest In any of the corporations involved in the litigations. lit-igations. He came Intcr-the affaire -l tin- Pioneer Sugar company in April. L921, for the sole purpose of representing repre-senting Ernest B. Woollcy. Voolb- had previously made a contract to transfer to the Pioneer Sugar company Stock of the Interstate Sugar compan. for about $830,000 in farmers' notes. The stock of the Interstate Sugar com. pany was issued by Woolley to himself without any consideration whatsoever,! and was wholly spurious fraudulent and worthless The contract was so wrongful and fraudulent that Woolley deemed it necessary in the consummation consumma-tion of the transaction that he control both corporations. "Accordingly uhen Sanders became ihe president of the Pioneer company Ihe exacted autocratic control over Its affairs:, notwithstanding he had no Investment In-vestment to protect. and was there solely for the purpose of enabling I Woolley 10 take from the farmers I Without consideration their notes aggregating ag-gregating $830,000. HEAV1 II VBU M 1 1 v "My clients represented many of the leading business 1 men of Ugden. Salt Iake. and Provo, and subsequently the L'nion Trust company of San Francisco, Francis-co, which was trustee under tho Pingree Pin-gree Sugar company deed of trust. Their direct Investment aggregated $535,000 ,nnd Indirectly their Investments Invest-ments and possiblle liabilities aggregated aggre-gated millions. Facing, as I was. the Woolley organizations. well known from coast to coast, it is needless to say that a supreme effort wius made to 1 arrest the operations of Woolley and Sanders and thereby protect my . hent "Lawsuits were filed in state and federal courts of several different states, and bankruptcy proceedings were instituted wherever It was possible possi-ble to get Jurisdiction. If It were possible pos-sible to do anything to check the operations oper-ations of these people that I have not done, it has beep because of the lack of 1 time and dependable assistance. Bpmt Cases are now pending which ll ould and wMll bo called for trial at th earliest earl-iest possible moment, and we hope at the conclusion of this mass of lltlga-tioin lltlga-tioin these promoters will find It adVla. itble to seek another field for their operations. MW SUITS FILED "During the time that the farmers notes were being delivered to Woolley ( for thr fr. 11. lub in Int. estate vtock, a 'force of ' lerks and sten graphers was' kepi busy indorsing the notes and transferring them almost before they reached the office "f the pioneer Sug-1 ar companj Banders, as Woolley's representative, was al the bead of this organisation ! understand that Wooi-i Wooi-i v delivered s large amount of these notes to various bank Ball Lake im-med im-med lately upon receipt of them from his trusted representative in thi Pioneer Pio-neer ompan y't offli e The frauduli nl character of these 1 1 a n-aet Ions was common knowledge upon the streets and In 1 he arlous ban I - 1 .f Bs it 1 . Lke Notwithstanding t in. the banks 1 laim-t-d. thej irere the bona fide purchas- r- tor value and without notice. Ini the latter part of the year 1 large num. I her of suits we: e filed bj the banks, 11 eluding about 200 in the citv court at OS in ' .1 ral hundred thousand I led in ihe hands of th Amalgamated Sugar company r 1 "For many years 1 hav had a largt clientele In Cachi vallej and among '. hem man; were sued and 1 heir mom 0 1 sui ef o r 1 thai thei hould in diatelj col upon me for assistance in securing tho re-1 lease of their mone and defending the sull 1 ti"' on 1 did not solicit 1 he cep ted i , , . . becausi ont wen Involved .1 udging 1 1 urn 1 in hi : , - of thi , 0 . 1 Ba nden "in- 1 n well understand thai 1 havi full-slsed man's job without the addition addi-tion .1 900 lawsui A n thi 1 ' . 1 be cause tho combined Wool ley and San - ; ders forces have retained B ery large percentage of the lawyers In Utah and 1 Idaho Thi fa 11 It to understand wh; Banders wae unable to - , . , ., . , ma in lav ei to aid him In 'filing 1 his 1 proi eedlhg. OGDEN M SCn in n 1 i) "W It. Skeen of Ogden was not in- a , . ! . Lgation, a nd wa responsible foi the conduct. D Skeen of Salt Lake and myself . r. nol partners, out I associated hlni in om of the business In July and his condut ; hS - b.-en 11 11I r r mi .unn . . . pyoach ' "i welcome nnj p Ingi n in court ' : competent ui Isdli tlon, prefei - ably a federal court, because of the facility in handling Interstate busineai for the Investigation of the entire matte", mat-te", and although I am hard pressed for time in protecting ih Interesto of my clients. I will lend any assistance possible in ferreting out the facts and bringing to justice the parties responsible responsi-ble for the litigation involving almost the entire state." SAL.T LAKE, April 8. Papers containing con-taining accusations brought by officers of tho Interstate Sugar company against the law firm of Skeen & Sheen 1 In an attempt tn have disbarment pro-1 ceedlngs instituted in the state supreme su-preme court, were referred yesterday. to tho grievance committee of that; court, which is made up of the same personnel as the grievance committee) of the State Bar association. Former .Tiidce C W. .Morse is chairman, and former Judge S. W. Stewart and I'ean F. Rrayton comprise the committee. Tills committee is a standing committee com-mittee of the supreme court, and has full power to investigate charges filed and to report, according to court attaches, at-taches, acting largely in the capacity Of "friends of the court." When it has reported, the court will ta.ke what action ac-tion It sees fit, and may either ignore the whole incident or may request the attorney general or some prosecuting official to file action. The supreme court has had special committees to investigate accusations of thifi sort from time to lime, but until un-til a few months ago had no standing L-omnilttee. Tho grievance committee of the State Bar association has long been a standing committee and at times has Instituted proceedings. |