Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-11
Pine Bluff Corporation Will Go the Limits With Water
 Main Extension Case
SORRELLS IS CAUSTIC
City Attorney Says You Must Twist Corporations Tail d Time
 Or Two.

Notwithstanding the fact that it's officials contend that the ordinance under which they were summoned in- to court is invalid, Acting Police Judge L. E. Cheek in the city police court yesterday afternoon fined the Pine Bluff Corporation $50 for it's failure to extend it's water main to the home of Dr. T. w. Woodul, in the Rutherford Park addition, as re- quired by recent act of the city's legislative body. President Y. G. Bridges, of the water company, who appeared as counsel for Manager B. c. Fowles, in the police court, ap- pealed the case to the Jefferson cir phic Sunday morning, and the fight will be taken to the Supreme Court at Little Rock if the higher court affrms the decision of the police court judge.
 City Attorney Sorrells, who waged successful fight against the case to the Supreme Court forced the wa- ter company to extend the curb lines | without cost to the consumers, ap- peared for the city and madeNN ring ing speech in which he urged the Pine Bluff Corporation wonI guilty of violating an ordinance that
 was entirely legal.
 He declared that it was nothing
 but stubbornness on the part of the
 water company officials in their ef- forts to escape requirements of the
 City Council. He said there was only
 one way to take the stubbornness
 out of the Corporation and that was
 by twisting it's tail a time or two" He asserted that it is the disposition of the Pine Bluff Corporation, and other corporations as we'll, to avoid doing anything unless it is made to do it. The Pine Bluff Corporation can no longer say i've are willing to do so and SOL said the City Att torney. The City Council has made up it's mind to make them do just as they think is best for the people of this community.
 MT. Sorrells argued briefly the leg al features of the ordinance, which he classed as valid, and said it can be enforced under the criminal sta ute. He charged that the "perman- ent guarantee" feature in cases of l water main extensions is an entirely new venture for the water company; 1 that every contract for water exten- sions in Manager Fowle's office reads flor one year. Even if the ordinance is invalid" said MT. Sor- rells, Git is not for this court to pass on it's legality or illegality. The cost of the 800 foot extension, ac- cording to Manager Fowles, Is $385. say that they cannot assume that
 Dr. Woodul will not remain in his :, present home for more than one year. There is only one thing for
 this court to do, compel the water company to make the extension or fine them"
 Attorney Bridges cor Itlended tbat
 the guarantee for the extension In question was not permanent one. but for only one year. pr. Woodul agrees to pay $30 for the year and
 the Park Land Company $50. pF.
 Woodul, he said. admits that his wa- ter bill for a year will not exceed i SIP. There are no prospects for any
 additional houses in the Rutherford
 addition, said MT. Bridges, at this 1 time, and for that reason the water company did not fancy the idea of going to an expense of ssS5 for mak- ing a 800 foot extension when no permanent" guarantee of patronage from that quarter was assured. Mir Bridges said the water company was i willing to make the extension if tho consumers would guarantee the com lpany sSo per year permaneDta Let us write your D S Han. administrator execI
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