The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-24
ENJOINS HIS RIVAL.
John COnlon of Abilene Has
Trouble in Denver.


Denver, Feb 24-Application for one
of the queerest injunctions ever asked
for in the district court was made to
Judge Mullins Saturday, when he was
asked by one lover to restrain another
lover from calling upon a girl whom
they both loved. The judge refused to
issue the injunction upon the ground
that he did not believe that an order
from his court would be respected In
Cupid's court.
Government by injunction has become
a by-word in the community now, out
love making by injunction is a brand
new article with which the community
has not become familiar. John Conlon,
the applicant, appeared to be very much
disappointed when the injunction was
refused and it is said that he left the
Judges chambers as though he had de-
termined to take the law into his own
hands against Charles Richards, his ri
val.
The complaint tells the story of Con-
Ions woes better than he could relate
them himself. In his cause for action
he says:
That on or about February Is for a
valuab BILE consideration, to-wit, ten dol
lars ($10) paid by the said plaintiff to
defendant agreed and contracted to in
troduce this plaintiff to Miss Eta Rice,
described by the said defendant as q
swell That this plaintiff had lately
arrived in Denver from Abilene, Kan
sas, and being unused to city ways, re-
lied upon the representations and trust
ed in the honesty of said Richards, and
paid over the ten dollars ($10), hereinbe-
fore mentioned.
That the purpose of said introduction,
understood and agreed to by and be-
tween said plaintiff and defendant was
matrimOny.
That the said defendant, pretending to
carry out the obligation thus imposed,
presented this plaintiff to the said Eta
oct I,r1 OF ma
ade ball given by the Fraternal Order
of Eagles.
That in truth and in fact the said
Eta Rice was as described by the said
defendant, a swell" and the said plain
tiff further relying upon the representa-
lions of the said defendant did press his
suit and received such encoura cement
from the said Eta Rice led this
plaintiff to eSpend much money at that
time and since.
That all the efforts of this plaintiff to
secure the favor of the said Eta Rice
have been rendered fruitless by the
malicious interferenceS and unwarrant-
ed attacks made on the character and
personality of this plaintiff by the said
Richards, who. the said plaintiff alleges,
at divers times and places referred to
him sneeringly, contemptuously and
slightingly as a RUDE" a farmer
and a sucker" all of which caused the
said Eta Rice to display a GOODNESS
towards the said plaintiff
The plaintiff alleges the fact to be that
if the said defendant were restrained
from holding communication with the
said Eta Rice. or from visiting her, the
purposes of the contract hereinbefore
mentioned would be brought to sue
cessful conclusion.
Wherefore. this plaintiff prays that a
writ of temporary injunction may issue
out of this honorable court restraining
and enjoining this defendant from hold
ing communication visiting with or
prejudicing the mind of the said Eta
conspiring to defeat the purposes of the
said contract. And that upon a further
hearing of this cause the temporary in
junction may be made permanent. And
for such other and further relief as the
court may deem proper and sufficient