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MORE GILLETT LITIGATION. Massachusetts Banks Asks a Receiver for a Bunch of Cattle. In the federal court at Topeka Thursday, Judge Riner will hear evidence to determine whether there shall be a receiver appointed to handle a certain bunch of Grant Gillett's cattle, on which three to five chattel mortgages were given. The plaintiff in the case is the Third National bank, of Springfield, Mass. On August 20 last Gillett secured $57,286 from Elmore & Cooper on a chattel mortgage on 1,866 head of cattle in the Texas Panhandle. It was agreed in the mortgage that Gillett should bring the cattle up in one bunch to his Woodbine ranch and feed them there. The money was secured on twelve notes, eleven of them for $5,000 each and the other one for $2,846. Elmore & Cooper sold $12,846 of the paper to the Third National bank, of Springfield The plaintiff now claims that the cattle have never been at the Woodbine farm; that, on the other hand, Gillett permitted them to fall into the possession of William Dunlap, and later they were divided up into numerous bunches and 525 head of them shipped to St. Joseph and sold. The plaintiff claims that Dunlap insists that he took possession of the cattle under a prior mortgage. It is charged that the cattle now are not worth over $40,000 and that unless a receiver is appointed the First National bank of Springfield will lose c its entire claim as Gillett is a bankh rupt and has absconded. No temporary restraining order was issued in the case. Next Thursday has been set as the day for the federal court to hear evidence as to whether the plaintiff is entitled to a receiver for the CC property.
