The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-06-22
INJUNCTION
WAS SERVED
County Commissioners EnjOined
from Building the Jail
THE BILL OF COMPLAINT
Papers Served Yesterday Upon Officers.
Tribune Readers Given Bill Of Com
plant IN Full "a Hours Later.

A temporary injunction was granted
Wednesday by Judge Minor s. Jones,
enjoining the board of county commits
sioners of st. Luce county from further
proceedings in the building Of a county
Jail at Fort. Pierce.
r. r. Ricou and r. ID. Hoke, of Jen-
sen, are the compliments, and through
their attorneys, Knight & Bray, asked
for the granting Of such last week, but
Judge Jones refused to do so without
bond being furnished by the atlantis.
The bond was Immediately secured with
John Sorensen, d. E. Austin and James
Neal as sureties, and the bill of COM
plant and other necessary papers re-
turned to the Judge with the bond.
These were signed by His Honor and
filed with the clerk of the circuit court
here yesterday.
The injunction was granted on the
hearing Of the compliments, while the
commissioners were not represented at
the presenting Of the complaints, etc.,
and is only temporary in its nature.
Attorneys Hemmings and McCarty will
represent the board and at an early
date appear before Judge Jones, pre-
senting the commissioners case and ask
for dissolution of the injunction.
We give below the bill of complaint
in full:
In Circuit Court of the Seventh Judi
cial Circuit, in and for st. Lucie
County, State of Florida.
r. r. Ricou, r. ID. HOke, ct al, VS..
w. r. Hardee, X. B. Raulerson, j. F.
Bell, P. Kroegel and r. d. Holmes,
county commissioners, and WAGNER
& DObson, contractors. Bill of injunc-
ton.
To the Honorable M. S. Jones, of said
Court, in Chancery sitting:
Your petitioners, r. r. Ricou and r.
d. Hoke, would represent unto your
honor that they are tax payers and res
idents of st. Lucie county and State of
Florida; that the legislature Of the
State of Florida at its last session, to-
wit: 1905, enacted law as follows:
Gan act providing for the creation of
st. Lucie county in the State of Florida,
and for the organization and govern
ment thereof" which act was approved
by the Governor May "a, 1905, and
which act went into effect on the LIST
day of July. 1905.
Section of said law provides that
"the Governor of the State shall, on or
before the 18th day of July, 1905, APP
point all officers to which said county
may be entitled under the Constitution
and laws of the State of Florida" That
under the above provision the Governor
appointed w. r. Hardee, X. B. Rauler-
son, j. +. Bell, p. kregel and II. d.
Holmes county commissioners of said
county, and that the same are now and
have been since the LIST Of July, 1905,
the board of county commissioners Of
the said st. Lucie county.
Atlantis further represent that Sec
ton of said law provides that the
town of Fort Pierce shall be the tempo
rary county seat of said county, and
that Fort Pierce is now the temporary
county seat, and that there has been no
election or action taken making Fort
Pierce the permanent county seat of
said county.
Atlantis further represent that sec
ton of said law provides that "it shall
be the duty Of said board Of county
commissioners to hold their first meet
ing on the first Monday in July, 1905.
and at the said meeting they should
make arrangements for temporary car
rying on the county government. That
in violation of the spirit and intention
of said law the said board of county
commissioners on June 4, 1906, entered
into a contract with Wagner & Dob
son, contractors of Atlanta, Georgia,
for the erection of a Jail in the town Of
Fort Pierce at cost of $3.50. That a
copy of said contract is not made a part
of this bill for the reason that the same
is not now nor has it been filed with
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