The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-16

bank wrongfully took possession of and
retained certain pass book containing
the record of the co-partnership's de-
posits at the bank. The bank refused,
II Is alleged, to deliver a statement to
the plaintiff and it was not until 1896
that he was able to ascertain the full
amount of the co-partnership's deposits.
| 1t is alleged further that up to the
date of the seizure, Jan. 20, 1891, the
partnership had deposited at the
bank 1904, 1894 that a half interest in
the profits and the legal liabilities of
the firm aggregated $S42, 1854, leaving
the amount sued for to the credit of the
firm over and above all profits, checks,
drafts and Withdrawals, and that the
S62,O0S.40 has been since Jan. 20, 1891,
withheld wrongfully by the bank from
the plaintiff as the sole and surviving
partner of the firm.
John M. Tobin commenced suit in the
district court yesterday for divorce
from his wife, Jennie Tobin. The COM
plant alleges that the couple were mar
ried in Butte May 80, 1895: that the
plaintiff has always been a good and af-
fectionate husband and provided well
Tor the defendant, who, notwithstand-
ing, violated her marriage obligations,
ana, in 1896, without cause, deserted
him and has since lived separate and
apart from him; wherefore plaintiff
asks for a decree of divorce and to be
released from all obligations toward the
defendant.
Inc amended complaint in the suit In
which Mae Lathrop sues the city for
sii,loo Tor injuries sustained by being
struck by falling billboard on Nov.
a. 1898, was filed in the clerk of the
courts office yesterday.
After reciting the duties imposed upon
the municipality toward citizens by the
laws under which the city is fncorpo-
rated, the plaintiff alleges that at the
time of her accident the city negligent
ly permitted persons unknown to the
plaintiff to maintain, unlawfully and
wrongfully, as a trespass upon the pub
lie streets a billboard so feet long and
10 feet high and of the approximate
weight of about 1000 pounds, on Plat
mum street, at the intersection of Utah
avenue that the billboard was not
made secure and had no lateral stays
to prevent it from falling; that the bill
board was a constant source of danger
to pedestrians and that the city had no.
tice that 1t was unsafe several weeks
prior to the accident that on Nov. 4,
1898, while the plaintiff was passing the
billboard, wholly unaware OF danger
and without fault or negligence on her
part, the billboard fell over, striking
and knocking her down, dislocating her
hip and causing other grieVous wounds
in and upon her body whereby she was
compelled to employ medical assistance
and was confined to her bed for nine
months. The plaintiff alleges that she
sustained permanent injury to the eX-
tent of $4,000 loss of time of the value
of $3.50 and expended for medical and
surgical care $500. The plaintiff further
alleges that she presented her claim TO
the city council and that it was by that
body rejected and she therefore asks
judgment in the sum of $50 and the
costs of this action.
Fred C. Bowen commenced suit in the
district court yesterday to recover from
Joseph and Marie Desjardins and S.
G. f. Cobban $40, with interest from
April 20, 1899 at the rate of / per cent.
a month. on a note given by the Des-