The copper era., 1911-02-24
Complaint Will Be Filed This Week PurpOrtins to Show Board Acted In a CapriCiOuS and
 Arbitrary Manner
MORENCI CITIZENS ACTIVE
They Insist That Clifton Must Make Good On Their Free Site
 Guarantee

Before the court house for Green
 lee county is finally built, and ever
 before the site for the same is de
 finiteIy settled, the indications are
 that the Board of Supervisors will be
 called upon to defend themselves in an injunction suit-at least one, if not two.
 The first injunction suit to restrain the Board from fixing the court house site on Hills Addition will be filed the latter part of this week or the first part of next. It will be brought in the name of prominent taxpayer of Greenlee county and the complaint will contain sundry allegations in support of the restraining order which is sought, viz:-that the Board acted arbitrarily in the matter; that the convenience of the public has not been considered; that certain mem- bers of the Board were interested in having the site for the court house
 fixed on Hills Additions; that a majority of the voters and taxpayers are opposed to the action of the Board in selecting the site on Hills Addition, and various other allega- tions, which purport to show that the Board acted in a capricious and arbitrary manner.
 Accompanying the complaint against the Board will be proposi- tion that the Board consent to a hearing of the case before Judge Lewis, in chambers, at Globe at an early date.
 Last week the committee appointed by the Probate Judge to appraise the lots tor the court house site made their report placing the valuation at three hundred dollars each. MT. Henry Hill, owner of the lots, has made the statement that he will not accept the appraisment as fixed by members of the committee and in the opinion of some attorneys the county has not the right to institute con- demnation proceeding for the pur- pose of erecting a court house; that the only right to institute condem- nation proceedings is for a prison site. But even if the committee on appraisment had fixed a valuation satisfactory to the owner, there is still move difficulties in the path the Board must follow.
 On Saturday last resident of Mo renci made the positive statement to the ERA that in the event that the Board attempted to pay out any money for a court house site in Cliff ton they would immediately be en- joined on the ground that in the re- cent election in Greenlee county for the location of the County seat several citizens and taxpayers of Cliff ton guaranteed to the voters of Green lee county that in event the county seat was fixed at Clifton that free site for the building of the court house would be fur nished. In support of his contention the resident of Mo renci pointed to an article which was published in the Copper Era on Nov. 4th, 1910, as follows:
 FREE SITE FOR COURT HOUSE IN
 CLIFTON.
 As is shown by the following peti- tion, signed by citizens of Clifton, representing an assessed valuation of more than fifty thousand dollars, the voters of Greenlee county are guar anteed that if Clifton is selected as the county seat-the site for the court house will not cost the tax payers a single cent:
 "Welthe undersigned, residents of and taxpayers of the Town of Clifton, hereby guarantee, if Clifton is select ed for the county seat, that free site for the court house will be tend cred to the County of Greenlee in whatever section of the town the Board of Supervisors may select:
 Signed: Sam Abraham, F. B. Laine, Thomas Sirianni, W. R. Way land, Wade Hampton, Antonio Spezia, J. G. Smith, c. P. Dunn, John R. W. A. Pitt, J. c. Gatti, P. Ambrose Spezia, John Par que, Stephens & Schade, Archie E. M. Williams, George