Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-07
Council Bluffs
Line UP FOR DISTRICT COURT
Last Day for Filing Causes Arrives
and Attorneys and Litigants Are
Busy with Their Suits.
SUITS FOR THE MARCH TERM

SUITS FOR THE MARCH TERM
Today will be the last for filing causes
for trial at the March term OF district
court, Late in the day the attorneys
turned IN nineteen petitions None OF
! the suits were Of much public interest
! The city was made co-defendant in
three suit filed by NJ j. Voorhees, in
connection with tho acquisition Of the
right-of-way for the portion of North
| Broadway. The Voorhees, property was
among the portions necessary TO condemn
and $1,000 was paid for strip extending
100 feet. ranging IN width from twenty
feet 20 nothing When the question OF
condemnation was first brought UP vor-
hces asked $500 for the ground desired,
but a compromise wac effected without
! condemnation by which he decided to the
city the strip referred to- Some mis-
| understanding at the time led voorhees,
to believe that part OF the agreement
obligated the city to give TO him all OF
the land formerly used for street pur-
poses since the changing of the location
OF the street, placing Il on the west side.
This tract is nearly 100 feet deep and ex-
tends the full length of the Voorhees, prop
erty. 1t will naturally become valuable
as residence property.
Some Notices Served.
Several notices have been served on
the council by Voorhees, 90 vacate this
property. but as there was no record OF
any agreement such as Voorhees, alleges
and the special committee of the council
denied any knowledge OF an offer 70 give
/ him Ia aNN
was paid TO 1t. At the last meeting Of
the council the telephone company and
the Postal Telegraph company. whose
lines occupy their old position on the
street, informed the council that they
had been notified by Voorhees, to remove
their poles and vacate the street. Repre-
sentatives Of the companies asked TO have
a resolution adopted confirming their right
to use the street but this was pointed
out TO he unnecessary for the reason that
the city had not relinuuished its title
TO the vacated portion OF the street The
suits filed yesterday included one against
the city asking judgment for S2.6OO as the
balance OF the price for the strip taken
In the Voorhees, property.
Another suit Is an application for an
injunction restraining the telephone and
telegraph companies and the city from
further use OF the vacated portion. The
third suit is against tho telephone com
pany and asks Judgment for $50 for
rental for the use OF the property since
! It has been vacated for street purposes.
Only One Divorce suit.
In all the suits filed yesterday. there
was only one application for divorce.
Alta II. Neville asks absolute divorce
from her husband, Atwood =. Neville.
on the grounds OF cruelty and habitual
use OF intoXlcRntk. They were married
at Gravity, Ia. November Y, 1892 and
she alleges that she was compelled to
leave him tho latter part OF 1913. she
asks the custody Of their three children,
two daughters aged is and 6 years, and
one son, 1-year-old
suit for A.sOO was filed by II. H.
Turner against the German-Amerlcan
Fire insurance company. for the insur.
ancs OF the grain elevator and store
at Dumfnes, Ia. that were destroyed
by fire, September 2s, last.
Two suits were filed against the street
railway company. one by Beatrice NJ
siel, for $4,000. for alleged injuries sus.
tanned while getting off a car AT Ave-
nue. and Twenty-third street. on Au-
gust q. last and the other by her hus-
band, O. IL. Siel, who asks Judgment
for $500, for loss of Mrs. slers serv-
| ices.
The b1remen's Fund Insurance COM
pany Of San Francisco il sued by Wit
teno Narmi. TO recover the n.lst54 fire
loss sustained November "a, when his
home in this dty was destroyed. lie al.
leges damage to the amount of $sJ4.45 on
the furniture and 500 on the builing.
suit that disclosed the real name OF
Martha Howe. keeper OF a resort in
ISast Omaha, TO be NJ. Gravenhurst was
filed by William o. Ford to recover s54 q
for work done and repairs on the build.
ing