White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-11
MEYERS BRINGS LIBEL
SUIT AGAINST JURORS

together with Contractor o. NJ. Wal
lace and several other persons, in 4
report filed with the district court at
the time, which was two years ago
last month. Accordingly Mr.. Meyers
has started a libel suit for that sum
against all the members of the jury
and filed 1t this week in the office
of the county clerk.
The name of his attorney does not
appear subscribed to the complaint,
hence his identity has not been re-
vealed. The complaint Is brief and
sets forth that the grand jury filed its
report in writing February 23, 1921,
and a supplementary one March 4,
a copy Of each being attached and
made a part of the complaint. He
alleges that the reports are false and
that they were made and filed with
intent TO injure the reputation, good
name and credit of the plaintiff. and
that thereby lie has been damaged in
the sum sued for.
Only that portion Of the grand jury
report referring to Mr.. Meyers is ap-
pended to the complaint, the salicnr
paragraphs thereof reading as fol-
lows:
we believe that the acts of the
board of county commissioners in
connection with this building (the
new county hospital) constitute moth
ing less than graft and misapplica-
ton of funds, and never before in
the history of White Pine county has
such an outrage been perpetrated
upon the taxpayers of the county.
Just why Mr.. ]. d. Watson of Nc
Gill, New, who was employed by the
county commissioners to act in the
capacity of superintendent OF con-
struction at a fat salary, failed to do
mis- duty in regard to proper con
struction and material. and in accord
nee with specifications furnished,
will be mighty hard for the taxpayers
of White Pine county to understand,
and VIZ doubt il he will ever be able
to explain with any degree of salts
faction.
I'VE believe he must have known
that Contractor o. NJ. Wallace and
the county commissioners were cwind-
ling the county out of n lot Of money,
and had he been honest and consci-
entious in the discharge of his duties
as superintendent, he would not have
allowed this rotten mess to go on,
nor would he have reported the build
ing completed. when, as a matter of
fact. it is not completed. and he knew
at the time it was not.
His action, of course. in no wise
clears the skirts of the board of
county commissioners. who are re-
sponsible for the payments made to
Contractor o. NJ. Wallace. Mr.. Mey-
ers, the master mind of the board of
county commissioners, has had suf-
ficient experience as a builder and
contractor here and elsewhere to
know when a building is complete
and when it is not. In this particu-
lar instance he knew that the build
ing was and is not completed, and
that Contractor o. NJ. Wallace should
not have been paid, and he knew, as
did Commissioners Weber and Tuck
err, that in accepting for the county
the new hospital building In its pres
ent condition. and allowing Contract
or o. NJ. Wallace more than $4,000
as extras over the original contract
price, when they did this they knew
they were committing a ~dastardly
outrage upon the community.
"They should be forever barred
from again holding public Office any
where.
I'VE believe Contractor o. NJ. Wat
lace showed great wisdom as we'll as
extraordinary discretion when he
took up his permanent residence in
Arkansas
The point made By the plaintiff
is that the grand jury failed to in.
dict for the above alleged acts and
that when asked to do so or retract
the allegations in the supplementary
report IL refused to do SO. but reit
Grated the charges.
IL bidhd Jaioio VIM wv VII
as defendants are as follows: Ar
thur A. Shell, c.. B. Nance, Martin
Petersen, ] J.. Gubler, Herman Wise
Nose Anderson, Robert Reid, N. V
Hogan. r. f. Middagh, Andrew L
Hexem. Dick House. r. T. Swallow
J.. A. Carlson, o. G. Bates. Martin
Nelson and A. A. Marshall.
1t is generally understood that Mr.
Meyers has contemplated this sui
for a long time, but that he waited
principally for the outcome Of thC
libel suit of r. Il. Swallow against
Anthony Zurich and A. A. Sherman
involving tho same report, a reply tc
which was published in the White
Pine News by Mr.. Sherman at tn;
request and under the signature Of
Mr.. Zurich, and that with the latter
case being won by the defednants hc