Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-07
CITY INJUNCTION 10 STOP
 WOOD CUTTING $2O,OOO SUIT

home and yield impure water dangerous Tor the use of the inha of the said city.
 1 The court of common council of said ic city at an adjourned meeting regularly held on Thursday August 5, 1920, duly passed the following vote: That the corporation counsel be and he hereby is ! 9lstructed and directed to take such i legal action in the name of the city as may be required to protect the inte- rests of the city in the cutting and sale of any of the timber sawed or other wood on the water sheds owned by the city
 The continued threatened cutting of the city's timber, the maintenance of saw mills, horses, teams and men on the water sheds owned by the city and the execution of said unlawful contract will cause irreparable damage to said city, | for which there is no adequate remedy at law
 The plaintiff claims:
 ! An injunction restraining the defend- l ants or any of them from further at l tempted execution of said contract, from i further cutting or saving of wood or the approval of the board of water commissioners and the court of common council.
 That judgment be entered annulling and declaring void said attempted con- tract
 Damages of. s2O GOO against the de- fendants Lang and Murphy. i Such other relief as to justice and equity may pertain. Of this writ with your doings thereon make due, service and return.
 Dated at Norwich, Conn.,, this 9th day of August, 1920.
 EDWIN w HIGGINS, | JusticS of the Peace County of New London ss Norwich, | August 6, 1920.
 | Personally appeared Herbert NJ Le- rou, mayor of the City of Norwich, Conn.,, and made solemn oath that the 1 facjs and all the allegations in said complaint set forth are true to the best 1 of his information knowledge and be- | lief, before me.
 EDWIN W HIGGINS, Justice of the Peace
 The injunction issued by Judge Waller | is as follows:
 State of Connecticut, County of New | London, ss. New London Aug. 6, 1920. | Upon the presentation to me, Charles B. Waller, Judge of the court of com i mon pleas for New London County, Connecticut, of the foregoing complaint, praying for the reasons therein set forth for an injunction against the de- fendantS therein named, duly verified by the oath of Herbert NJ Lerou May or of the City of Norwich, Connecticut and upon motion of Edwin w Higgins corporation counsel of said city It is ordered, that the defendants, the i board of water commissioners of the Icity of Norwich, their servants and agents, be restrained and enjoined from any further attempted execution of the icontract marked Exhibit A herein with out the approval of the court of com mon council; that the defendants Mur- 1 phy and Lang, their servants and agents, be restrained ad enjoined from any cutting, hauling, saving of timber or wood on lands owned by the city and from removing from the lands ot the city any wood or timber either sawed or cut until the next session of the superior court for New London lcuonty to which this writ is made re- turnable, and until said court shall make further order in the premises Therefore by authority of the state iof Connecticut, you the said Albert s tComstock, Hugh Blackledge, Edward Crooks, Walter w Lang and Patrick F. Bray, constituting the board of water commissioners of the city of Norwich as such and you ignatius J. Murphy and Walter W. Lang and each of you your servants and agents, and all and every one of you, under penalty of ten thousand dollars, are hereby strictly commanded and enjoined that you from hence forth altogether and absolutely refrain from every and all acts that in any way relate to the execution of the contract set forth herein and marked exhibit A, without the direction ap- proval and consent of the court of com mon council of said city, and further you the said Ignatius ]. Murphy and Walter W. Lang, each of you, your ser wants and agents, and both of you, un- der penalty of ten thousand dollars are strictly commanded and enjoined that you from fenceforth altogether and absolutely cease all cutting, saving, hauling piling of timber or wood on lands owned by the city of Norwich un- til the session of the court, to which said writ is retucnable and until further order in the premises.
 For good cause shown I am of the opinion that this temporary injunction ought to issue without bonds, and there fore direct that it do issue without bonds.
 CHARLES B. WALLER