Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-26
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Actions Brought TO Enjoin w. v. Sill
vers d Company.
from Fridays DailY.l

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Two petitions were fled today in the
Office of the clerk of the district court,
one of which is entitled the State OF
Iowa VS.. VIM. F. Silvers & Co., ct al,
and the other the same plaintiff
against August Uhlein, VIM. Y. Silvers
& Co. ct al, in which the plaintiff prays
for an injunction against the defend
ants, restraining them from keeping a
place where Intoxicating liquors are
sold and further asking that each place
be declared nuisance. w. A. Work is
attorney for plaintiff in each case and
Frank Erbacher makes the affidavit
that the allegations contained in the
petitions We're true. The first case is
against Callie Maple, presumed to be
the owner of the building in which the
saloon is conducted, Vim. v. Silvers &
Co., VIM. v. Silvsrs. George Silvers and
Charles frost. For cause of action
the plaintiff states that the defendants
and each of them have established and
do now maintain nuisance in GER
tain two-story brick building with eel
lar situated on the middle 90 feet of
lot 315 in this city. That the defend
ants have no permit from any court to
sell or keep for sale Intoxicating Ii
quors and that they have not executed
and filed a proper bond as required by
law. They further say that said place
is not conducted in single room with
but one entrance as provided by law
and that they are open for business on
election days, Sundays and holidays
Wherefore plaintiff prays that defend
ants be perpetually enjoined from sell
ing or keeping for sale intoxicating Ii
quors and that the said place be de-
clared a nuisance and further that it be
abated in the manner provided by law.
The second case is against August
Uhlein, Vim. v. Silvers & Co., VIM. v.
Silvers and George Silvers The allie
cations of this petition are the same as
the other except that the location OF
the building is given as the one on the
corner of Main and Marion streets and
in addition alleges that no list OF
| names of persons employed by the con-
Germ has been filed with the county
auditor and that the premises have not
been listed with the same official for
taxation under the provisions of the
mulct law. The petition further says
that the defendants hav enot paid the
mulct tax as provided by law, to the
treasurer of Wapello county nor to the
city of Ottumwa. Plaintiff prays for
the same relief asked for in the first
petition.
II is rumored that this is but the
forerunner of other cases that will be
| filed against different saloon keepers
| in this city but when an attempt was
made to trace this rumor to its source
nothing definite could be learned.
Sarah Hills, widow of the late Levi
Hills, bv her attorneys, McNett & lis
dale today filed petition in the clerk
Office in which she says that on Feb
| Z, 1899, the Northwestern Life Assur-
ance company, the defendant, issued
to her husband policy of insurance
upon his life, in the sum Of So, 800; that
said policy was issued in exchange for
another policy, issued May 81, 1881. She
further says that the said Levi Hills
died in this city July IS, 1899, and the
defendant was notified OF that fact
four days after his decease. Plaintiff
further says she is the surviving wife
and beneficiary of said Levi Hills, and
she now brings suit for the recovery
OF the amount due.
Eight of the creditors of Edward T.
Mathews, of Bloomfield, who has filed
a petition before Referee Lewis for q
discharge as bankrupt, have appear.
ed, by Geo. f. Heindel, their attor.
ney, and objected to the application
for discharge from his debts, and say
they will within ten days file specifi.
cations in writing stating their grounds
for opposing the action.