Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-10
INJUNCTION IN FREE BRIDGE FIGHT Judge Grace Acts in Alb
 sence of Judge
 Elliott. WILL BE RESISTED
Would Prevent Bridge Commissioners From Meeting. Circulating Petitions
 or Declaring Result.

from Meeting. tfftHiallng ftIltIonS
 or Declaring Result.
 Charging the act under which the Free Bridge District was authorized to be unconstitutional, alleging that the directors were preparing to meet and examine petitions with a view to passing on question of a majority and making their decision final, without the right of appeal on the part of any taxpayei and further alleging that the siaAi es to the Free Bridge petitions were secured through fraud and misrepre sentation, adding that the directors were planning to spend one million dollars in the construction Iof the Bridge, T. H. Collier, large taxpayer of this co1nty yestarday prayed an injunction n the chancery court to restrain the board of direc- ] tors from meeting, circulating peti- tlOns or declaring result.
 A temporary injunction was issued by Judge A. Grace in the absence of Chancellor John M. Elliott, who is holding session of the chancery court, but the circuit judge acts in the absence of the chaareiiaf No date was set for the hearfn@
 The injunction Attor- neys Asa c. Oracle o. Ii Carmi- chael, of Little Rock, re yrezel1ting the l Taxpayers Protective Association, which has been waging fight against the Free Bridge for some months.
 The Bridge Commissioners had ad- vertised that they would be in ses- sion on April "A for the purpose of passing on a question of a majority Of signers. It is expected that the attor- neys for the Bridge Commission, Coleman and Can't, and Danaher and Danaher, of this city, will file a mot ion asking that the temporary injunc- tion be dissolved. The act creating the Blidge District provides that no restraining order shall be issued without first having given the board of directors ten days notice of such intention. The Jefferson County Bridge Bill is a copy of the measure that authorized the construction of the new Free Bridge between Fort Smith and Van Buren. It was upheld by the Supreme Court when it was contested by antitFree Bridge people there.
 The petition was presented in chambers before Judge A. B. Gr7 ce immediately after the arrival of At torneys Asa C. Oracle and J. H. Car michael, from Little Rock at o'clock Service was not issued however until late ill the afternoon and none of the commissioners have been served up to six o'clock. A copy of the restraining order accompanied the summons in each case.
 The suit is styled T. H. Collier against the Board of Directors of the Jefferson County Bridge District, who are w. D Hearn. E. B. Bloom, A. W. | Nunn, F. G. Smart, Frank Tomlinson, E. A. Howell and P. P. Byrd.
 The petition recites that Judge j.. M. Elliott, chancellor, is out of the county and the district, and that it is necessary for the protection of the in terests of the plaintiff and all others similarly situated that immediate ac- ton be taken. That plaintiff is a real estate owner and taxpayer in the Bridge District, as formed by the act of the General Assembly, creating the district.
 It is charged that the board of di- lrectors have published a notice call ing for meeting On April "A, fo, the purpose of examining the peti- tens to ascertain if majority oi the land owners in the county, either in number, in value or in acreage, de. sire the building of the Bridge.
 It is also charged that the act i. unconstitutional being in violation O
 both the constitution, state and feder- al governments as it attempts t, take, appropriate and use property o
 the plaintiff for puhlie uae withou
 due process of law 41a aish ut com
 pensation. 4 HE'
 It Is alleged that the defendants un
 der the act will attempt to build