The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-05-11
FILES SUIT :.
FOR $4,000
TallaSSee Falls Manufac-
turing Co., Defendant.
B. o. WATKINS, PLAINTIFF
Biggest Damage Suit Ever
Filed in the City Court.
Birmingham Engineer Alleges That
He Has Not Been Paid for Ex-
tensivs Work Performed by
Him at Tallassee
B. 0. WATKINS, PLAINTIFF

Papers In the largest suit ever put upon
the docket of the City Court Of Montgom.
cry County have been filed with Clerk
H. H. Matthews Of the City Court. b.
o. Watkins Of the firm Of Watkins e
Hardaway of Birmingham has entered
suit against the Tallassee Falls Manu-
featuring Company for $4,000. =
The suit is to recover for work which
the plaintiff claims to have done for the
Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Company
at its plant at Tallassee Falls. The
scope of the work as set out in the bill
is very large. The plaintiff claims in
the suit that he did expensive work for
the defendant company during 1897, 1903.
1899, 1900 and 1901. This work 1t is
Claimed was done upon the request of the
defendant and accepted by them when
completed. but for which the plaintiff al
legcs he has never been paid. He sues to
recover $75o.0Oo and interest for the work
and for the material used in the con.
struction.
The papers in the suit which broke all
records In the City Court were served
on Secretary w. H. Micou of the Manu-
SVhipdhy tof dHbWeI
The Tallassee Falls Manufacturing
Company operates mainly by water power
one Of the largest cotton mills OF the
South. Part Of the present plant was
built years before the war out of native
stone. The plant Is situated adjacent
to the finest water power in Alabama. It
Is located Just below the Tallassee Falls
above which is the dam and plant Of the
Montgomery Water Power Company. Both
plants are built to utilize the swift waters
Of the Tallapoosa Rivef.
b. o. Watkins of the engineering firm
Of Watkins & Hardaway has been superin
tending engineering operations on large
scale for several years on the Tallapoosa
River for the company The plant has
been recently enlarged by the building of
another dam and a new power house.
The complaint In the Watkins suit sets
out In full the work which the defenda Mt
claims to have done. The vital portion
of the allega lions In the suit are as fol-
lows:
THE plaintiff claims of the defendants
the sum of s750,0O0 with the interest there
for, for work and labor done and material
furnished in 1897 1898. 1899, 1900 and 1901
by Watkins and 1Iardaway, a co-part-
| nership composed of B. o. Watkins and
b. H.. Hardaway. which work was done
at the instance and request of the defen-
| dant during the years 1897. 1898. 1899,
1900 and 1901. In the excavation for and
construction of a dam across the Talla-
poosa River and in excavationg for the
construction of a canal and retaining
| wall for same and the bulkhead at the
power house. and cotton mill, one picker
house building and wheel pit and power
house and tail race and tunner and food
tubes, rack bars, draft tubes and iron
/
ferdams and excavations in connection
| with several parts Of said work and OF
said building at the defendants cotton
| factory at Talassee and East Taliessee
| and plaintiff AYERS that the defendant has
accepted the said buildings and dam and
power house canal walls, tail race and
| the property on which said work and
| labor done and material furnished. which
sum with the interest therein is due and
unpaid and the plaintiff is the owner OF
said claim or demand"
The papers sllege further that the
plaintiff built for the Tallassee Falls
Manufacturing Company $50 houses al
Tailassee consisting Of residences, boiler
house and reservoir house. He alleges
further that he furnished the defendant
with $500 cords of wood for which he has
never been paid.
The style of the suit is "B. o. Wat
kins vs The Tallassee Falls Manufacture
ing Company "a corporation organized
under and incorporated under the laws
of the State Of Alabama"