Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-28

One of these is the Railroad Bond Case
The History of the fight-It is Post
poned Until the September Term OF
Court-The Other is the Bridge In
junction. This will be Finally Heard
ON August Eighth--An Interesting
Talk With Mr.. Stout, President Of the
Harrison County Court-His First
Visit to this Place for Fifty Years and
the Impression Formed of it.
Two injunction cases were taken
before Judge Hagans on Wednesday
and he decided neither finally.
One of these was the case of the
County Court Of Harrison county
against the West Virginia and Penn
sylvania Railroad Company from
Harrison County. 1t involves one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
worth Of bonds which were voted to
the company by the voters of that
county seventeen years ago
Nothing has ever been done on
the railroad since that time except
what one freshman and a mule could
do. The grading that they have
done has been merely to establish
the technical fact that there was
work of construction going on on the
road all the time The bonds could
become void in three years by limita-
tion if left alone However this was
not allowed to be the case.
At the last session of the County
Court two OF the members wanted to
pass an order cancelling the bonds.
or that is they wanted an order
passed asking the bank Of Clai ks
burg, which had them give them
over to the Court so that they might
be cancelled The officials of the
railroad company heard Of this move
and they eheckmated it by getting
an injunction restraining the Court
from passing such an order.
1t is to dissolve this Injunction
that the Court is now suing. The
case has already cost the county
fourteen hundred dollars in lawyers
fees and if successful they will only.
be IN the same position as they were
when the subject was first braoehed.
That they will have further law
suits of course goes without saying.
After hearing the various lawyers
Judge Hagans decided to lay the
matter over until the September
term of court and there it will rest
until that time Charles Lynch, r.
L. Lowndes and John w. Davis of
Clarksburg and j. G. Sands of Fair
mont represented the company and
B. F.. Stout president of the county
court appeared for that body.
Another case from the same coun-
ty in regard to the new bridge was
taken up and the hearing was post
poned until August eighth. The
county court was enjoined from
beginning this but they went ahead
and passed the order before the in
junction was served on them. This
case has also attracted great deal
of interest in the county The same
attorneys appeared in this case.
Mr.. Stout the president OF the
court was seen by a representative
of this paper and a very Interesting
talk was had with him, He stated
that this was the first time he had
been here for fifty years. The only
thing that he recognized were the
old steps at the F. and NJ. bank
which were exactly as they were
then.
He said that he had been over the
country a great deal within the last
few years, but he had no where seen
prettler and apparently more pros
porous town than Morgantown.
'You ought to be very proud of your
town which IS a great credit to
every one who lives here and pleas
ing sight to every visitor. And you
have a great future ahead of you.
This valley is on the eve of great
development which will help you in
a thousand ways Many other in
teresting and laudatory things were
said about us, which were to great
extent deserved and showed that
Mr.. Stout had properly sized up the
local situation. He will be back
here on the hearing of the bridge
injunction case when it comes up
again.
Notice.