Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-10

Huntington, DdpttSI CAuIIA, NnASS
Mary Pope, John G. Arnold. G. NJ
Cridister, Mrs. Jas. Wofindin, Mrs.
Catherine Hall, DIR. j. T. Warder, Mrs.
DR.. A. f. Lawson. Mrs. Leila Holt (No.
Is Main street), the M. P. church,
Mary Jane Maxwell.
The following persons who have OBJ
tanned injunctions against the town
have fenced in an addition to the
ground purchased by them and called
for in their deeds parts of the streets
of the followingAw widths:
Err. Ralston. 1919 feet of Water street;
Mary M. Warren, feet and - inches
of Main street; Emma H. Ralston, 8
/ feet and 5 inches Of Main street,
(above parties are sisters); Joseph
Clifton, 5 feet of Main street; Joseph
Clifton, 10 feet and II inches of Null
berry street; Ella Clifton, % feet and
inches of Mulberry street, (the latter
brother and sister, Mary Finster, 9
feet inches of Main street; Charles
O'Hara, 4 feet Z inches and Is feet OF
Main street; Zona L. Minnich, feet
and 8 inches Of Main street; Lucy S.
Hunstill, 1914 feet of Water street;
Geo. Ross heirs, feet and Z inches
of Water street and strip of Main
street; James A. Tierney, 81a feet OF
Water street; Sallie Tierney, feet OF
Water street, (two latter brother and
sister,; w. w Brannon, feet OF Main
street and 6 inches of First street; w.
G. Bennett, feet 10 inches of Center
street and 2 feet IL inches on Central
ivenue, (this encroachmsnt extends
along Center street,; Floride MeClel-
Ian, 9 feet of Center street, 2 feet OF
First street and 2 feet of alley; Jes-
sic c. Lewis. 10 feet Of Water street.
The foregoing facts all demonstrate
beyond a reasonable doubt that all this
beating of tom toms is to create a
noise to attract attention, while a. few
street and alley grabbers get something
for nothing, and in SO doing they work
lasting injury to their neighbors and
wear the beauty of the town in which
they live.
1t has been repeatedly said by the
ablest jurists and law writers of every
age that where it is apparent that
greater evils than good are perpetuated
by decision that it is the duty Of SUBJ
sequent courts to reverse, and nothing
could be made clearer than that the
present Supreme Court acted wisely.
The fact that so small town as Wes-
ton contains so many unpatriotic citi-
zens as the records of the Court show,
who bitterly contend for from six inches
to twenty odd feet of the public high
way, without holding evidence Of a
shadow of title, but based on, as depo-
sitions show, their claims upon mere
possession, which was permitted by the
indulgence of the servants of the peo-
pie.
1t is truly surprising when we reflect
that people making pretentions to re-
spect ability hide behind statute of
limitations to take from the public that
which they do not nor can not claim
by purchase or gift. AS the Flesher
survey shows every one, with possibly
one exception, will have as much or
more than his deed calls for, and the
language used by Judge Dent is justi-
able where he says that man who
would obstruet the paths of traffic is
an enemy to the community in which
he lives fit for treason, strategy and
spoils.
All this hash and re-hash of five
former decisions" Is trumpery when
viewed from the light of decisions that
can be sustained by all true methods
of right and reason, and we decline
to dignity such twaddle by detail, but
leave it with it advocates, who. like
the moth or bsA, will futter, founder
and expire under the noon day sun of
reason. There will always be found in
the Judiciary men whose bump of ego
and self-esteem overrides their organs
of justice and consciousness. A
death blow to their errors -humiliate
but never instruct, and any publication
that parades such men will mangnify
the truth of their unftness to have
worn the judicial ermine, and when
compared with those who by decisions
stand for the protection of all the peo-
pie against the eneroachment of the