Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-09-07
1HE srArE RoUss sum.
Sui. for 5000, 900 Flied by Legislative Com.
mitiee The Complaint.


appointed to prosecute the alleged
State House frauds, have fled suit
against F. p. Milburn, E. j. McIl-
vain, j. G.. Unkefer, S. b. Goucher
and j. G. Johnson for 100000. The
grounds of complaint are:
Failure to perform the contract is
charged in the following particulars !:
That the work done and the ma
terial furnished was not equal in
amy respect to work done and mate
Irial furnished or the previously COM
pleted portion of the main building,
marring the effect of the fine work
on the main building
That the contractors removed the
fine steel ceiling of the rotunda, and
carried away the material, substitut-
ing therefor ceiling of plain mate
rial costing not over $500.
That the two granite columns. in
the inner part of the front portico
were not placed as required by con-
tract. These columns, it is alleged,
would have counteracted tendency
of the portico to pull away from the
main building.
That in lieu of carving leaf work
on the columns equal to the leaf work
on the capitals of the old columns,
ga coarse, unsightly and unfit leaf
work was substituted.
That the columns in the rear por-
tico should have corresponded with
the columns in the front portico.
This was not done, no Intel stones
were placed there and sheet iron
boxes to represent granite were sub
stituted. Defective glass flooring
and cheap, shoddy, stamped iron
ceiling" was used in the porti sos.
That the roof is of tar and gravel
imperfect in quality, it is alleged,
and with the gravel of improper size.
The roof is said to leak badly, flood
in the main lobby. There are no
ventilators to carry off the air be-
tween the ceiling and the roof.
That the dome is given lot of
space in the instrument. 1t is said
to have been constructed in crude
and un-workman-like manner, full of
orimps and kinks. The inner dome
is not seturely supported, according
to this complaint, and there are
other alleged deficiencies.
After numerous other specifica-
tions in the complaint, all of sec.
ondary Importance, it is alleged that
no protection was afforded for the
interior of the building while the
roof was being removed and in con-
sequence all the galleries were
flooded and the painting and fres-
Going was ruined.
The plaintiff believes that Mr.
Milburn and the firm of contractors
"collusively and fraudulently agreed
together that the work to be done
under the foresaid contract should
be insufliciently and improperly
done," and that said Frank p. Mil
burn-well knowing the same to be
defective, improper and insufficient
falsely and fraudulently cerUihed
in writing that the payments for the
same had become due" And on
this certificate of Architect Milburn
the said contract sum was procured
to be paid to the contracting firm
and the plaintiff claims to have been
damaged to the extent of $2O0,000
The second cause Of action re-
views in formal way the matter of
he appropriation and the making Of
the contract. The complaint then
states:
"Plaintiff is informed and believes
that the said Frank p. Milburn, in
tending and purposing to cheat and
3efraud the said State of South
Carolina, so prepared his specifica
tions and plans in the matter as to
leave the same open, general and
vague and ambiguous in many re-
spects so as to enable him, by collu-
sion and confederacy with any con-