San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-18

clerks Office this morning.
The county commissioners, con-
sisting Of Joseph E. Dwyer, Peter
Jonas, Sr, Frank Umscheid and
William Boerner have brought
suits for damages against Henry
Pauly, J. f. Rountree, III. Tournat,
III. Harms, j. S. Thornton, Will
liam Dobrowolski, j. P. Earl, H.
Cunningham, John Newton, Hart
Mussey and F. Il. Johnston. The
suits are entered on the docket of
the Forty-fifth District court and
are for $4,000 each. The suits
grew out of indictments brought
against the county commits
sioners by grand jury, of
which Mr.. Pauly was the
foreman, charging the county
commissioners with misapplying
public funds. The cases were to
have been tried during the present
term of the Thirty-seventh District
court, but the indictments were
quashed.
The plaintiffs petitions allege
that the defendants we'll knew the
premises and matters and things
alleged in the petition, but
wickedly and maliciously con-
trived and intended to injure
the plaintiffs in their good names,
fame, character, credit and reputa-
ton, and to bring them into public
scandal, infamy and disgrace, and
distrust as citizens and members
of society and as county commits
sioners, and to cause it to be sus-
pected and believed by and
amongst their neighbors, and
other good and worthy citi-
zens of the state, that plain
tiffs had been, and were guilty of
criminal charges and official mis-
conduct falsely and maliciOusly
charged against them by defend
ants.
Other suits were filed as follows:
r. d. Davies VS.. j. F. ROuntree,
on promissory note, 1911.
Karl Herzog VS.. Fred and Pau
line Nickel, damages, $1,000. Plain
tiff alleges that defendants caused
an Indictment to be found against
him, charging him with theft, and
that he was exposed and disgraced
without cause, and was tried in
courts for crime of which he was
not guilty.
Henry and Fannie Roberts VS..
VIM. Hoefling, damages of $4,000.
1t is claimed that Scott Roberts,
plaintiffs thirteen year old son, was
Injured on November |, 1898, from
the effects of which he died about
two weeks later, that he was hired
to carry a torch in a procession of
the German Day celebration, with
out the knowledge and consent of
the parents.
Jake Mitchell VS.. the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Rail-
way company, damages, in the
sum of $500. Plaintiff alleges that
on last October 80 he purchased
ticket to ride as passenger from
Marathon to Sanderson, but that |
the conductor on the train would |
not accept the ticket and fOrCibly |
elected plaintiff from the train in
the presence Of several persons;
that the conductor announced he |
was a United States marshal and |
that if plaintiff would not get off /
the train he would arrest him for
interfering with the United States
mails.
Plaintiffs also want $4,000 each |
as exemplary damages, making a
total of $4,000 for each plaintiff, or
a grand total of 100000.
COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS.
The following opinions were
handed down in the Fourth Court
OF Civil Appeals this morning:
J. B. Lanyon VS.. F. NJ. Edwards,
from Bexar,wIit of error; affirmed.
Francisco Flores ct al. VS.. Mary
A. Maverick, from Bexar; affirmed.
w. T. Ward VS.. w. d. Wofford,
from Gonzales; affirmed.
Louis Sieffer VS.. Mclean & Egg
gers ct al, from Ell Paso; affirmsd.
he. Dayhoff VS.. the Interna-
tional and Great Northern Rail-
way company, from Bexar affirm
ed.
Jesse Oppenheimer VS.. George G.
Robinson ct al, from Bexar affirm
ed.
Leigh Clark VS.. the West Pub
fishing company, From Ell Paso;
affirmed.
S.W. Lovelady ct al. VS.. Mary
A. and Hamilton Bennett, from
Frio; reversed and remanded.