Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — A Suit for Seventeen Millions. [ARTICLE]

A Suit for Seventeen Millions.

When the end of the gigantio exposure of the frauds known as the Credit Mobilier, 1871, had been reached, and Oakes Ames, then a Congressman from Massachusetts* returned to his home broken in spirit and ruined in prospects, the country at large, the pulpit and the press generally dropped the subject, until it ceased altogether to provoke any comment. Once or twice a ghost has arisen, in a legal shape, from the ashes of the buried fraud, but these have occupied but little of the time or attention of the public. Yesterday, however, a ghost of immense proportions loomed up in the Circuit Court of the United

States in this city, in the shape of a suit for #17,000,000 damages brought by Judge John Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk, Pa*, against the representatives of the original Union Pacific Bailway Company. The ground for the action is stated by Judge Leisenring to be thereyoking of a contract between himself and the Union Pacific Company, under which he was to build the read, and that, being thus defrauded out of his legal right to construct said road, he Buffered to the extent of the amount claimed.— New York Star.