Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-22
SHOWS BOARDMAN G. LAWRENCE
70 BE ATTORNEYS FOR BoTu
GAS COMPANY ANb CITY.
WOULD GUST FIRM
FROM cITY's CASES
Ward Councilman Presents
Resolution lnstructins Mayor to
Take Steps to Terminate Attorneys
contract-Firm Employed by City is
Also Hired by Gas Company.

Councilman George Herman, of the
Fourth ward, sprang distinct sur
prise in the adjourned meeting of the
city council Monday night when he
declared that the firm Of Boardman &
Lawrence, attorneys, employed by the
city to assist in it's litigation with the
Marshalltown Light, Power and Rail-
way Company for lower gas rates, was
accepting employment from the gas
company to carry on its legal business.
Herman presented an custer resolution
removing the attorneys from the city's
cases.
Mayor Ingledue was not present at
me Monday night meeting, being out
Of the city, and because of this fact the
council decided to take no action on
he resolution, deferring any further
procedure until the next meeting, Mon
LAY, Feb. %.
Herman Shows His Proof.
Prefacing his resolution Mr.. Herman
presented to the council a copy of JUS
tice .Millard's docket, showing the firm
of Boardman & Lawrence to have APP
peared for the AIarshalltown Light,
Power and Railway Company in col
lection suits wherein the company had
entered suit against delinquents for
non payment of gas and electric light
bills.
Four cases in Justice Millard's were
cited to show the council how the law
firm, while acting for the city against
the gas company, was the gas COM
pany's attorney in these other cases.
The four cases cited showed the
docket number, page number, names of
those against whom the suits were
brought, the name of Boardman &
Lawrence as the attorneys for the gas
company, and the dates when the judg-
ments We're rendered. The suits are
entered on docket No. 81, page III,
and docket No. SO, page 135. The cases
were docketed as far back as Dec. %,
1907 The other dates of the cases in
which the firm appeared are Feb. "a,
1908; April IS, 1909; and Feb. s, 1910.
Appears in Story County Also.
Mr.. Herman produced further proof,
and went out of the county for it. He
placed before the council copy of the
bar docket of the Story county district
court, for the term beginning Jan. 10,
1910, at Nevada, in which the follow
ing suit was entered: No. 1907, Mar
shalltown Light Power and Railway
Company, (Boardman & Lawrence, at
torneys,) vs.. Nevada Gas Company, Of.
E. Hansen, Attorney account"
Herman's Resolution.
After showing his proof to the coun-
ell Mr.. Herman introduced the follow
ing resolution:
BE it resolved. by the city council
of no oit Of oil
the mayor be, and is hereby instructed,
to take such steps as may be neces-
sary TO terminate the contract of en-
ployment now existing between the city
of Marshalltown Iowa, and the firm of
Boardman & Lawrence, attorneys, in
the matter of the litiga ton now pend
ing between the city of Marshalltown,
Iowa, and the Marshalltown Light
Power and Railway Company, with ref
erence TO the ordinance heretofore
passed by the city council, regulating
the rates of the company"
is Not Right, Says Herman.
Mr. Herman supported his resolu-
ton with a recital of the statement Of
facts, as he had proved conclusively,
and said that it was not the proper
thing for the council to employ an
attorney to fight a city case when that
attorney was employed by the same
people the city was fighting. Because
it is a fact that Boardman & Lawrence
are attorneys for the Marshalltown
Light, Power and Railway Company"
said Mr.. Herman, "the proper thing for
US to do is to dismiss Boardman out of
the city's case. If the city needs other
counsel / think can get two lawyers.
and good ones too, who will give the
city their services for nothing. Wei
have already paid Boardman 5000, and
it would pay the city in the end to dis
miss Mr.. Boardman."
Clark Agrees With Herman.
Councilman Clark, of the First ward,
agreed with Mr. Herman, and said
that he believed the resolution in the
main correct He said he did not be-
lieve that man should be employed as