The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-04
CITY JET F|CERS ARE PLACED ON FENCE
 BY COURT ORDERS
Snyder Says to Issue License to HaIe-WaIker Declares There Is Nothing
 Doing

Latest developments in the jitney war place Commissioner of Public Safety W. B. Clos, Jitney Inspector A. c. Smith and other city hall off cials in a quandary. The great flood of injunctions and other legal in- strumentalities invoked by the jitney operators has become confusing. City officials concerned arc in tho peculiar position of having to answer rule nisi compelling them to show cause why they should not issue a license to ". S. Hale to operate jitney on the West End route and at the same time obey an injunction re- strainlng them from Issuing Hale a license.
 The rule was issued by Judge Roger w. Snyder on a mandamus proceed ings instituted by Hale last week Judge William Walker, chancellor issued temporary injunction Sat urday on the petition of E. l.. Coop CT, M. l.. Mims, l.. W. McReynolds and F. J. McCauley, drivers on the West End line, restraining the city officials fro missuing a license to Hale or any of his agents to operate on the West End route.
 The petition for the injunction was filed by Attorney John Morrow. It seeks the injunction on the ground that only 30 cars are permitted to operate on the West End route and that this number Is now chartered and in action. No date has been set for hearing. It is believed that the city will make no serious 'ob - jecion to the injunction. When Hale filed his petition for a writ of man. Gamus, MT. Cloe declared Hale had been refused license because the quota of cars for the West End route had been filled. Hale has two cars operating on the West End jitney line at the present time.
 Injunction Impetent.
 II was learned Saturday, following a continuance of the war" between Ford operators on the Glen Iris line and the city that the operators did not have the protection they think. Judge Snyder issued an order direct ing that Cloe and Smith be enjoined from interfering with the operation of the Fords upon the making of proper bonds by the petitioners. The permanent was continued to next but 1t became known Saturday that .the bond filed by the jitney drivers had not been approved by the reg ister In chaneery. Under this state of facts the injunction is impotent.
 Hearing on the petition of the jit- ney drivers to make the injunction permanent was con continued to next Saturday by Judge Snyder. This &C., tion was taken when attorneys rep resenting both parties in the con troyersy failed to appear at the court house at 10 o'clock Saturday morn ing. Horace Afford, attorney for the jitney drivers, appeared later with his right arm bandaged. He sustained a severe cut as the result of an automobile accident on Fifth avenue near Twenty-first street at 3 o'clock Saturday morning when his car collided with a truck and turned over.
 Efforts of the city to rid itself of some of the injunctions issued against it during the last two weeks were begun Saturday when W A. Jenkins, assistant city attorney, filed motion before Judge William Walker seeking to have dissolved the temporary injunction granted s. Powell, operator on the Glen Iris line, in which the city was enjoined from collecting a 25-cent starter fee or interfering with Powell operat- ing jitney without license tag after it had been removed forcibly by employees of the city. Judge Walk CT took the motion under advisement Ihe injunction was issued by Judge Snyder