Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-26
new BILL FLED
Haas & Weld Represent a Chi
cago Man in injunction Case
Against the City
70 BACK UP ONE PENDING
Attacks Waterworks Bonds ISSUED ir
1872 on Ground of Exceeding the
Constitutional Limit.

The legal firm of Haas G. Weld today
began another injunction suit in the
circuit court aiming to prevent the
city of Rock Island from making any
payments on its bonded indebtedness.
The suit is brought in the name of
Edgar F. Olson, a resident of Chicago.
who owns property in the west end of
the city. The bill attacks the, S25 ,O0G
water works bonds which were first
issued inj February. 1872, and have
been refunded at various times since
that date. The suit, is based on the
same contentious as the bill of Matthias
Schnell and Henry Tappendorf for an
injunction to tie up the city's finances
and force a settlement of the Twenty
fourth street storm drain account.
To Back Other Case.
Mr.. Weld stated this morning that
the Olson bill was intended TO accom-
plish the issuance of an injunction in
case the Schnell-Tappendorf bill failed
in the supreme court The higher
court has already reversed the circuit
courts ruling in favor of the city on
the ground of lacheS, but a rehearing
is to be applied for by the city. The
defense of laches on the part of the
complainant, Mr. Weld explains, can
not be made in the Olson case because
of the fact that Mr. Olson acquired his
property here only two years ago, and
has never been resident of the city
The city, Mayor H. c. Schaffer. City
Clerk Martin Rudgren and City Treas
urer William H. Gest, Jr., are the de
ing.
Action Against Commissioners.
Louis Vetter is the complainant in &
bill filed in the circuit court to com
pei the highway commissioners OF
Black Hawk township to restore {
that the commissioners have filled a
small culvert and allowed the Roci
Island to construct a tile culvert, witt
the result that the water drains onto
his farm. Schriver & Schriver repre-
sent Vetter.
"HntS SlV,uOO from Suy.
Jessie Irwin has started a $4,000
damage suit against the city, for in
juries received in the collapse of tn,
sidewalk in front of 1872 Second ave
nue., April q, this year. The city hai
settled a number of claims on this &C
count, and has authorized a settle
ment of other claims, for comparative
ly small amounts. J. F. Murphy rep
resents Miss Irwin.
Theodore Curtis Smith has filed
$4,000 suit against the Mississippi Val
ley Traction company, for damages al
legged to have been sustained in an &C
cident in Moline Oct. %, 1906. TIL,
plaintiff alleges that his wagon wa
struck by one of the interurban cars
on Second avenue, near Seventeenth
street, and that he was thrown from
the wagon and injured. Harry E
Brown is the plaintiffs attorney.
Suits on Notes.
The Peoples National bank has be
gun two more suits against those finan
cially interested in the Central Elec
|
the hands of a receiver. The two suit
are to recover balances on two notes
one for $4,000 and the other for 81 90
made May 2S, 1907. for six month:
The balances are $2,157S1 and So
2G5O2, respectively, according to tn
account filed.
Sam Rosenfeld, through McArdle
McArdle and J. F. Murphy, has starte
a suit against Mrs. Julia e. Rosenfiel
to recover $4,000, alleged to be du
on a contract for the purchase of a sc
of 60 volumes of Dickens, at S35 Sc
The defendant, it is alleged, gave M
tice to the plaintiff not to deliver tn
books.
| For Separate Maintenance.
Mrs. Lolo Myers of Moline has file
a bill for separate maintenance
against her husband, Harry I. Myers
| They were married in-New York Cit.
Aug. 8. 1898, and the complainant
charges desertion March IL, 1907, an
non-support. w. A. Meese and B.
Bell are the compliments solicitors
Allows "a New Trial.
Judge Gest this morning set asid
the verdict for $4,000 awarded Jane
A. Campbell in his suit against tn
Rock Island, and granted motto
for a new trial The damages wer
allowed for personal injuries sustaine
in an accident in Moline, in which NJ
Campbell lost a leg.