Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1915 — TO END EXISTENCE OF PURTELLE ROAD [ARTICLE]

TO END EXISTENCE OF PURTELLE ROAD

O. L. Brown Starts Suit as Means of Disposing of Bar That Blocks *Marion Township Subsidy. In Monticello Wednesday a suit was filed to annul the charter issued some years ago to the Indiana Northwesteni Traction Co., the old Purtelle company. The suit was started by Prosecuting Attorney Howard Brockway, of White county, for Richard M. Milburn, attorney general of Indiana. The complaint alleges that the corporation has forfeited its charter, and all rights under its franchise, by failure to comply with the requirements of the same. It further alleges that the company was incorporated in 1909 and that it did not begin the construction of the proposed road within a period of three years thereafter as compelled by law so to do. That it did not make a map or profile of said route and file it with the county clerk as required to do. That it has failed to keep up ja directory of the road and to expend $50,000 on the Ene for a period of two years. That $2,000,000 worth of stock has been issued without the. payment of $2,000 to the state as required by law. That is has no assets in Indiana and is insolvent. O. L. Brown and W. H. Parkinson are attorneys for the plaintiff. A summons has been issued* to the sheriffs of White and Lake counties to be returnable May 28. This is the company organized by Eugene Purtelle, the spectacular promoter and to follow practically the same route as the Lafayette to Kankakee Mne. It was necessary to end its existence. ' r When the Brown company recently undertook to vote a subsidy in Marion township the program was blocked by the fact that a favorable vote had been made within two years for another company. To all appearances the Roberts-Zimmerman company, which succeeded Purtelle, and for which the subsidy was voted, has abandoned the field and the removal of them was necessary to holding the election for the Lafayette & Northwestern in this township. When the charter is annulled the bar will be removed and an election can be legally held in this township.