The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-13
.LANDERS DENIED
 DAMAGES AWARD IN LIGHTING SUIT
Former Senator Loses In Action To Collect $7O,OOO
 Damages.

New York, March 1S.-A jury in Jus tice Dugro's part of the Supreme court has decided that charges made by Rag1and Momand against George MarceIlus LanderS, former president of the Connecticut Senate, were true and that Landers cannot. recover $70,000 damages for which he sued Momand.
 Momand made the charges to Henry s. Thompson, former Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, and the present Commissi oner Will liam Williams. They were the out come of an alleged attempt by the United Gas Improvement company of P ilade1phia to crush the Pressure Lighting company, the success of which would cost the Philadelphia. concern $1,5o0,o0O a year. It was all legged by Momand that Landers ac- Lighting comIany for the express pur- pose of removing it as rival.
 Inquiry by Mitchell.
 It developed at the trial that Mayor Mitchell has ordered an investigation bv the Commissioner of Accounts of the office of Commissioner Williams, on the ground that the commissioner has favored the We1sbach Company of, America, a Philadelphia corpora tion. in the matter of street lighting. The Public Lighting Service Corpora tiOn, of which MT. Momand is con- su1ting engineer, charged that al- though it's bids were lowest for light ing the streets of Manhattan in 1914, the commissioner threw them out three times. Finally, he was com pelled to award the company the con- tract, as it's charge per lamp was 95 cents, against s per lamp asked by the Welsbach company.
 Landers sued through HOrnb1ower, Miller, Potter & Earle. Momand re- piled through Frank R. Greene Of No 233 Broadway.
 According to the evidence the United Gas and Improvement company, said to control all the street lighting con- cerns in the country, had 25O,OO0 lamps in New York, for which it received SIS a year each Momand became active and the price was reduced to SIP a lamp. At this time LanCers was pres ident and Momand vice president of the Pressure company, which operated a high pressure system that made hand-1ighting of the lamps unneces- Sary. --.---
 Landers charged that while he was president of the company, and at a time when he was presiding over the Connecticut Senate, MOmands sent him a telegram in which he said:
 ''I demand that you stop this crook ed cutthroat work in the interest of your United Gas and Improvement company friends at once''
 In1S CeIeSraLn, the evidence showed, was read over the telephone, and Ian- ders cOntendei it caused him great embarrassment. if not actual damage
 Momand then wrote Landers a let ter in which he said in connection with the impending bidding for light ing contracts in New York and the trial of a Federal suit against the United Company:
 "I have expected something to crop out in the interest of your United Gas & Improvement Go. friends since I learned that you recently spent sev- era1 weeks travelling abroad with these people, including their attorney in the above case.''
 Momand Ousted.
 One result of these communications according to the evidence, was the outsting of Momand as vice presiden of the Pressure Company. He wrote