New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-06
GLAD THEY ARE OUT OF 1T.
COUNSEL FOR THE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
COMPANY COMPLAIN OF HARD
WORK AND SLOW PAY.

Morris Whitehouse. the lawyers who VIII DO
succeeded by Collin Sheehan as attorneys FOR the
Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company. yesterday ex-
p,ained why their connection with the company
had been severed. and asserted that they were
glad that their services counsel for the COM
pany are cease and that their bills Tor services
have not been paid by the company
Morris & Wh!tehouse said that the severance OF
thelr relations with the company takes place al
their urgent and repeated request; that they have
been under a strain for the last two or three
years because OF the great increase In the number
y, su,ts against the company and because their
offices have been crowded with witnesses In these
suits constantly. Hardly day has passed, they
said when they have not been compelled 10 De
ready to try three four cases.
In speaking of this pressure OF trolley suits they
said: 1--WE have had them for breakfast, dinner
and sumner and in our dreams at night they have
eon. on and on In grand procession. In spite Of the
great number tried and settled every month the
number pending has been constantly increasing, I'M
ri TODAY we have more than four hundred Of
them against this company 1t cannot,
therefore be difficult for any one to appreciate tho
sense of relief we experience knowing that
Will soon settle affairs with the company and
retire from these cases. No jaded carthorse turned
into pasture feed and roll and rest in the green
grass, ever more gratifed than for the
freedom soon to possess We should have
much preferred that the relations should have ter
minated under amicable conditions but II Is other
wise
They say that they have been under q heavy ex-
pense In their service counsel. and that, after
repeated delay they were told that their bills for
services and expenses had been referred to the Re-
organization Committee They a letter to the
Reorganization Committee suggesting that their re-
atons with the company cease, and that their
unpaid bills should DO settled They. say they
waited three weeks and received reply from the
committee or the officers Of the company, and then
wrote again. saying that there is a limit to pa
tienee They insisted that their bin. be paid with
to a member Of the frm saying that the COM
mittee had nothing to do with the bills and had
returned them to the officers OF the company Pres-
dent Rosster and Secretary williams, of the com
pany promised that check for the Indebtedness
to the firm should be given to it. Then ex-Lieu-
tenant-Governor Sheehan and his associate Collin
selected to be counsel
Colonel Williams the secretary OF the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad Company. says that the company
last year paid 49, 900 for legal services. and thought
this amount was extravagant. This year careful
attention given to the bill, but Colonel Wnl-
Jams says that Judge Morris disputed the company's
right to question the firms charges and this pre-
vented. says the Colonel. q speeder settlement of
the firms account.
Morris Whltehouse say that II 10 uphill work
defending cases against trolley railroad corPora-
tons and juries generally disposed toward per-
sons injured by the cars eand DO not require an
abundance of evidence In order to decide In the
plaintiffs favor.