Attorney Carl Jacobs, representing Elsas & Pritz, hop dealers, and Attorneys Otto Renner and Roy Manogue, representing several of the stockholders of the Herancourt Company, appeared before Insolvency Judge Joseph B. Kelley yesterday, and raised the question of the necessity of appointing a new receiver for the company.
When Robert Herancourt sued recently, Herman Hohnhorst, President of the company, was appointed receiver.  Tuesday the Directors filed application for a dissolution of the corporation, and Attorney Joseph W. Heintzman was appointed Master Commissioner.  As the application for a receiver was filed by a Director of the company and an officer was appointed, it was declared this was invalid, and that an outsider must be appointed in that case to succeed Hohnhorst or the dissolution proceedings be amended to ask for a receiver and one named in that action.
Attorney Joseph Sagmeister, for the Directors, opposed the propositions, and Judge Kelley said he doubted the right to name a receiver is a dissolution matter at this time.  The matter was continued, and it is probable that an amended petition will be filed in the first case, or a cross-petition presented to bring about what is desired.

Walter Brockman, private detective, will be placed on trial June 2 before Judge John A. Caldwell and a jury to defend his life for a second time against the charge of first-degree murder of Harlan Brate, young Lockland High School student, on the nights of January 16 last.  Judge Caldwell, who will preside in criminal Division in June, made the setting of the second trial yesterday, at the request of County Prosecuting Attorney Louis H. Cappelle.  The first venire of 36 names for a jury to try Brockman will be drawn to-day.
Judge Caldwell also set the new trial for Ludie Clifford Shelton for June 16. Shelton, a negro, was convicted of first-degree murder of Patrolman William Dieters in August, 1918.  He was sentenced to die and Court of Appeals affimed this.  Tuesday Supreme Court set aside the conviction and ordered a new trial for Shelton.

Judge Stanley Struble's Common Pleas Jury returned a verdict yesterday fixing the amount which the Southern Railway Trustees must pay Leland G. Banning for property condemned between Seventh and Eighth and Carr and Budd streets for its approach to a new bridge to be constructed over the Ohio River at $25,072.  The jury divided this as $13,572 for the land taken, $1,500 for the structure, a part of a loading platform, and $10,000 damages to the residue.  In this was included $500 damages for a new switch to be constructed.  Attorneys Buckwalter, Headley & Smith represented the Trustees and Attorney Theodore Horstman appeared for Banning.

The Ohio Postal Telegraph-Cable Company yesterday joined the ranks of other public service and telegraph and telephone companies which have sued to enjoin collection of the city's occupational tax of $1,000 when it filed suit in Common Pleas Court, through Attorneys Waite, Schindel & Bayless, to enjoy city officials from enforcing the tax against it.  Judge Stanley Struble issued a temporary injunction.

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