Injunction filed on purchase of properties  

1929 - Dec 11 - Trustees of C. M. A. Named In Injunction

Halts Expansion


Suit Prevent Purchase of Property Filed in District Court at South Bend

The Culver Military Academy, a corporation, the Culver Realty & Investment company, and certain trustees of both organizations, are made defendants in a suit filed recently in the United States district court for Northern Indiana by Mrs. Ida Culver Wintermute, of California, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the pruchase by the defendants of property valued at approximately $169,273.88.

The trustees named as defendants are: E. R. Culver, of St. Louis; R. S. Bradshaw, Mrs. Minnie L Culver, Knight K. Culver, and Brig. Gen. L. R Gignilliat , superintendent of the academy.

The suit sets up that the defendant trustees met sometime ago and voted to purchase certain properties, known as the "Palmer House" and the "Jungle" properties adjacent to the present academy grounds for the amount mentioned, but that the voting on the matter was not in accordance with the rules of the board, although decided by the defendants to be so.

The plantiff sets up that the academy already has property sufficient for the expansion contemplated and that the properties which it is proposed that the academy shall purcahse are not suited physically to the best interests of the academy.

A permanent injunction is asked to perpetually prevent the purchase.