1904-05-07-New York Times-To Examine McCook

New York Times

7 May 1904, page 10

TO EXAMINE McCOOK

Lawyer Must Tell About United States Co-operative Shipbuilding Company.

Justice O'Gorman, in the Supreme Court, yesterday, on the motion of ex-judge W. M. K. Olcott, counsel for Tazewell Elliott, a lawyer of New York and Richmond, Va., denied an application by Alexander & Green, attorneys for John J. McCook, a member of that firm, to vacate an order made by Justice Blanchard directing Mr. McCook to appear before Miles M. O'Brien, Jr., as referee, and submit to examination in order to discover the names of the members of the syndicate who were associated with John W. Young in the formation of the United States Co-operative Shipbuilding Company, which never materialized.

Lawyer Elliott claims that he was engaged by Young, who is a son of Brigham Young, former head of the Mormon Church, to go to England and sell there $10,000,000 worth of bonds of the Co-operative Shipbuilding Company, for which he was to receive a commission of 2 1/2 per cent., amounting to $250,000, and 20 per cent of the stock, half common and half preferred, sold by him. He asserts that he sold the bonds.