Ex Parte Chase

April 18, 1901. The opinions herein were filed on this day, but the remittitur stayed on petition for writ of error to United States Supreme Court. No further order having been taken in this Court, the Reporter thinks best to publish the case now. It seems that between the dates of the 8th day of October, in the year 1898, and the 19th day of the same month and year, Henry Sonneborn Co. and sixteen other persons, firms and corporations as plaintiffs, respectively, began their respective seventeen actions against Thomas D. Rhodes, as defendant, on money demands which were not yet due, alleging…