The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-17
AN ORDINANCE IN QUESTION.
THE CITY RESTRAINED FROM col
LECTING 4 LICENSE.

Claimed A. ). Gresham was Doing
a AIOney-Lending Business on Per-
sonnI Property other Than as "a
PawnbrOISer-The Case TO Go to
the Supreme COurt-Money That
Heirs Have Never Called For.
Judge FsrriH Has About $1,000
That May Some Day Go TO the
state-TriaI Of Guest, Connolly
and Floyd Set for To-day.
Judge Falligant yesterday granted a
temporary injunction In the case OF A. J.
Gresham against the mayor and aldermen
Of savannah and John Power. city mar
shall, by which the defendants are res
trained from levying under an execution
20 collect $50 as a tax or license from
Gresham on the ground that he is engag-
ed in the business OF lending money on per-
s1nal property otherwise than as a pawn
broker.
Gresham denied he was engaged in this
business sometime ago and secured q res
training order preventing the levy on his
stock 70 enforce the payment OK this il
cense. lie has now secured a temporary
injunction preventing any action being
taken by the defendants until the further
order Of the court. He was represented by
Afessrs. Nicolson & Mcclellan, and the city
by S. y. Adams
j. Is understood Mr. Adams will take the
case 70 the supreme court. The claim is
made that there are a good many people
VINO are engaged in the business OF lending
money on personal property VINO cannot be
classed as pawnbrokers and yet they do
that kind of business to a certain extent,
and IL Is said the city is liable 10 lose some
little revenue if the law providing for
h
tiff in this case claimed he was not en-
gagged ia such business as was described,
and that the ordinance providing "A tax or
Hceno is illegal and cannot stand. The SUI
preme court will no doubt be asked to
pass upon both questions.
There is about $1,000 in Savannah saw
ings banks belonging to people who would
be welcome TO It if they would just turn
up and establish their claims.
This money is deposited to the credit of
certain estates, of which the court OF or
binary has jurisdiction, but the heirs UNI
der the wills made, or the heirs at law
have never turned up to claim it, and
there ii remains and the interest keeps
piling up.
The estates now for which there have
been no Claimants, and which have some
thing 10 their credit run all the way back
70 1913. They consist Of various amounts,
from $40 up TO several hundred dollars,
and there are about twenty in all.
Wnen an executor or an administrator
winds up an estate and the heir is not an
parent, the balance of the estate in cash
is deposited in a savings bank, and the
interest at per cent. begins 10 accumu-
late. Now and then an heir may turn up
and get the cash from one of these UNI
known estates, but IL seldom happens
after they have been there for any num-
Der of years. These estates are kept in
the ordinary's Office for years, and when
finally there is no possibility of a lawful
claimant turning up, the money goes to
the state, and is turned into the state
treasury.
In one case in Judge FerrnPs office, there
was left a balance Of S28.S9 in a certain
estate in 1873, and the amount now in bank
to its credit is $3.50. Another had ball
ance of $3.50 in 1888, and is now $l1.12. But
there are some larger ones. In one in
stance a balance of $l05.9l was left in 1879
and the estate is now worth S206.63, and in
another $500 left in 1855, is now $306.55. In
these and other instances there are some
neat little sums waiting proper claimant,
estates will find their way into the state
treasury.
The trial of E. L. Guest, J. e. Connolly
and Fred Floyd, charged with the muir
der of stephen Owens, will take place in
the superior court to-day. The killing, as
will be remembered, took place several
months ago, near Jasper Springs, at the
end of the West Savannah car line. d. =.
Walker was tried sometime ago on the
same charge and acquitted. One of the
conductor on the car is in Bryan county
and was sent for yesterday afternoon.
In the court of ordinary a homestead
was granted to Laura E. Newton yester-
day.