Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1910 — Former-Bailroad Promotor Sues Warren T. McCray and C. C. Kent [ARTICLE]

Former-Bailroad Promotor Sues Warren T. McCray and C. C. Kent

Bayard Taylor, a railroad promoter, is pontiff in a suit filed at Kentland against the Chicago, Indiana & Southern ‘Railroad Co., Warren T. McCray and Carrol c. Kent. The promoter asks judgment in the sum of $20,000. The Enterprise says the case is of “presumably small importance.” Tbe’Enterprise says further: “Mr. Taylor had a railroad on paper running from somewhere to somewhere, and. was out prospecting. Mr. McCray and Mr. Kent being desirous of securing* a north and south railroad for Newton county, entered into a contract yith Mr. Taylor to make certain survey®, and, we are informed, paid him for his services. In the course of the transactions that followed, a number of contracts were made between them and Mr. Taylor IETAo tween theta and several railroad companies. Subsidies were voted in a number of townships through which the proposed road was to run, and right-of-way was secured. But the subsidies were never collected, and when the road was financed and constructed by the New York Central, that company paid for all right-of-way not rvolutarily donated. The terms and'Agreements between the parties at suit are net a matter of public knowledge or concern, but it is well known that Mr. McCray and Mr. Kent gave liberally of time and money to the project, and secured for Newton county one of the best railroads in the central west. We are z informed that Mr. Taylor was settled with for the services he performed, and if he has not been, he has been a long time in presenting the claim.”