Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1914 — RECEIVER NAMED IN TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

RECEIVER NAMED IN TEXAS.

Court Acts in Case of Columbia Casualty Company of Indianapolis. Houston, Tex., December 17.—0 n the application of Horace Fletcher, a creditor and owner of five shares of the capital stock of the Columbia Casualty Company of Indianapolis, J. A. Camp of Houston, was appointed receiver under a bond of $5,000 by Judge W. J. Woods, in the Eleventh district court Tuesday. The proceedings are for the purpose of investigating an alleged conspiracy to dispose of $27,000 in cer* tificates belonging to the company. The receivership is ancillary to the one in Marion county, Indiana, where James A. Bingham was appointed receiver on a similar petition, filed there by Fletcher on April 15, 1913. According to the petition, certain individuals in conjunction with the president, Nicholas W. Muller, and the secretary, William H. Webb, conspired to defraud the company out of $40,000 shortly prior to the Indiana receivership.