Mill House Residents Won't Be Evicted Until June 23, 1921

Evictment Held Up for 10 Days. . . Occupants of Mill Houses Agree to Vacate by 10 a.m., June 23

The evictment proceedings that have been engaging the attention of several justices of the peace, several of which were brought by the Mecklenburg Mill to get eight tenants out of houses owned by that company on its premises at North Charlotte, were terminated Monday morning in the court of ‘Squire W.S. Huggins when an agreement was reached and signed.

By the terms of the agreement the occupants of the mill’s houses will vacate the property before 10 a.m. of June 23, otherwise the court will render a verdict in favor of the mill company. The agreement was by mutual consent among the counsel of the litigants, John M. Robinson and H.L. Taylor appearing for the mill and E.B. Bridges and Frank Orr appearing for the tenants. The defendants in the case are J.T. Lackey, Bob Parker, W.C. Hope, John McCraven, A.D. Sizemore, W.W. McLean, Joe Hoggan, and H.S. Spradley.

‘Squire Huggins had caused a jury to be summoned for the trial of the cases Monday morning. But they were not used as the agreement held up the trial. Those drawn and ready to serve as jurors were V.M. Stine, C.R. Scott, C.O. Kuester, G.S. Maynes, W.R. Robertson, J.L. Miller and B. Arp Lowrance.

THE TERMS OF AGREEMENT

“It is agreed that all of said actions shall be continued until 10 o’clock a.m. June 23, 1921, upon the understanding and agreement that the defendants in the above entitled actions will vacate the several houses now occupied by them on or before June 23 at 10 o’clock a.m., or in the event they fail to vacate said houses on or before said date, that judgments may be entered in favor of the plaintiff in the several actions now pending against the separate defendants above named, and that no appeal will be taken from the judgment so entered. It is understood that in any case in which the defendant has, on the date mentioned, vacated the house occupied by him, the plaintiff will take a non-suit on the date and at the hour mentioned.

“It is further understood, however, as a condition of this agreement that if judgments are entered on the date mentioned, executions thereon are to be suspended in any case in which the defendants may furnish the certificate of a physician, to be agreed upon by the parties, to the effect that any member of the family is too sick to be moved, the execution in such case is to be suspended during the period of such physical disability.

“It is further understood and agreed that as part of this agreement, that in the event notice to vacate shall be served upon any of the other families in the mill village of the plaintiff, the attorneys for the defendants, in the event they are employed by such parties, will recommend that they vacate within 10 days from the date of said notice, subject to the same conditions above mention in reference to sickness.

From The Charlotte News, June 13, 1921