Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-21
CASTS REFLECTION
 ON OUR JUDGES Petition of Taxpayers in the Federal Court Questions Fairness of Courts. SEEK AN INJUNCTION Bridge Case Decision in Federal Court is Awaited With Unusual
 Interest.
SEEK AN INJUNCTION

There is much speculation here as to whether or not Judge Jacob Trieb- CT In the Federal Court at Little Rock 1 will issue an injunction to prevent the Jefferson County Free Bridge Commits sion from meeting on Tuesday to as- certain a majority for or against the Free Bridge. The application for the restraining order has been filed by Lyman Melvin Jones, a nonresident who is represented as attorney in fact by J. F. Mcintyre, of this city.
 The attorneys for the Bridge Con- mission, Coleman and Can't and Dana her and Danaher, of this city, and for. mer Congressman Charles C. Reid, oi Little Rock, are to resist the efforts of counsel for the Taxpayers Protec. tive Association to secure the injunc- tion, It is generally believed here that Judge Trieber will not act, as it is stated that the Taxpayers Association will he unable to show to his satisfac. tion why the Federal Court should in- terfere, and especially after the high. est tribunal i'll the state has dissolv- ed an injunction against the Commits sion. that was granted by Judge J. M Elliott in the Jefferson chancery court
 V. o. Alexander and Hugh Fox, wh( have signed for the Free Bridge an6 whose affidavts were used by the Taxpayers Protective Association re- gently, stated yesterday that they consented to go over the signatures O. those who are said to be opposed t( the bridge, with a committee from thf Taxpayers Association, to show the of ficials of that organization that they were willing to grant any reasonable request Their affidavit was simply te the effect that they had gone over the list in the hands of T. J. Collier. Botf MT. Fox and MT. Alexander statec yesterday that they did not know the1 and do not know now whether the sig. natures were genuine, nor could the. say that all of the signers to the anti bridge petitions were property owners They found some lists that were writ ten by one man, as many as fourteen names on one of them having beer signed by the same person. Other signatures, they say, were question able.
 There are allegations in the petition that has been filed in the Federal Court that many look on as reflec ton upon Judges Elliott and Grace of the Jefferson chancery and circuit courts, and attorneys say that the wording of the petition may call forth some caustic statements from Judgt Trieber. The petition follows:
 IN THE UNITED STATE DISTRICT
 COURT FOR THE WESTERN Dl-
 VISION OF THE EASTERN DIS
 TRICT OF ARKANSAS.
 Lyman Melvin Jones, plaintiff, vs Board of Directors of Jefferson County Bridge District, defendant.
 To the Honorable Jacob Trieber, judge
 Your orator, Lyman Melvin Jones, is citizen and resident of the Domin. ion of Canada, and is the owner of two thousand nine hundred and twen. ty (292O) acres of land in Jefferson county. Arkansas, and the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of three thousand ($3,0OO.0O) dollars.
 Your orator represents that the de- fendant is, by special Act No. 214 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas of 1911, declar- ed to be body polite and corporate under the name and style of Board of Directors of Jefferson County Bridge District, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded and have perpetual succession, for the purposes designated in the Act, which is for levying assessments on all the real property. within Jefferson county Arkansas, for the purpose of erecting and building bridge at or near Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
 That said Board of Directors i' composed of w. D. Hearn, E. B. Bloom A. w. Mum, F. G. Smart, Frank Tom
 linson. E. c. Howell and P. P. Byrd
 who are all residents of Jefferson lcounty, Arkansas, and are citizens Q