The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-13
Judge Parish Refuses to De.
clare the LafIin-Rand Plant a
Nuisance to Pleasant Prairie
VICTORY FOR POWDER CO.
People of Pleasant Prairie Lose In Big
Fight to Gust the Powder Com
pany From Its Plants At
The Village

The Powder Trust has won a com.
plete victory in the suit of the people
of Pleasant Prairie to have the storing
Of high explosives on the property of
the Laf1in-Rand Company at Pleasant
Prairie declared a nuisance. This
morning Judge John K. Parish, of
Ashland, who heard the evidence in
the suit at recent term of the Cir
cult Court, filed his opinion with
the clerk of the Court Waldo in which
he finds for the defendants in the
action. This decision leaves the COM
pany free to continue the storing of
dynamite and giant powder on the
grounds owned by it at Pleasant
Prairie regardless of the protests of
the people OF the village andsthe sur
rounding country. The result of the
suit is great victory for the Powder
Trust and it will be far reaching in
its effects and it is now certain that
the powder company will continue to
operate all of it's plants in Wisconsin.
The suit for which the decision of
Judge Parish is the final chapter was
inaugurated six months ago by At
torney General Lafayette M. Stur-
devant, of Madison, on behalf of the
people of Pleasant Prairie and the
defendants named were The Latin
Rand Powder Company, The Dupont
Powder Company and the various off,
Gals Of the two companies in charge
of the plant at Pleasant Prairie. In
the suit it was declared that the com
pany was storing dynamite and blast
ing powder in such quantities at the
Pleasant Prairie plant that it had be-
come menace to the lives and pro-
perty of the people living in the
neighborhood. At the trial of the
case last April the attorneys for the
company practically admitted that
the companies were storing the am.
cunts of powder and dynamite alleged
in the complaint, but that there was
no danger on account of this action
Attorney Clifford E. Randall, of the
firm of Randall & Taylor, who repre-
scented the people of Pleasant Prairie
in the action, had not heard of tht
! decision of the Court when he was IN
terviewed this morning and stated
that he could not say what step.
would be taken until he had chance
| to read the decision of the Court. He
admitted that it was possible that the
suit would be taken to the higher
court, but stated that this could no
!, be stated positively at this time. The
people of Pleasant Prairie are decid
eddy determined in their fight agains
the company, and if the attorneys be
lieve that there is any chance to have
! the decision of Judge Parish reversed
it is very probable that the case viii
be carried up.
This was the last stand of the PEG
! pie against the Powder trust, as thu
! bill which had been introduced in tn,
State Legislature, to make the storing
of powder crime against the laws O.
the state, was sidetracked with tbs
understanding that the present suit il
court would settle the rights of tn,
people in regard to eliminating tn,
presence of the powder mill from
Pleasant Prairie. Further develop
mepts In the case will be watche,
with a great deal of interest.