Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — CONTRACTOR FAILED TO BUILD ROAD RIGHT [ARTICLE]

CONTRACTOR FAILED TO BUILD ROAD RIGHT

Judge Wason in Monticello Ruled Against Accepting Road Contracted For by L. T. Kent. Judge Wason, in the Whdte circuit count at Monticello, made an impor.tant decision Tuesday, when he rendered his decision in the case of taxpayers of Prairie township against Laurie T. Kent, stone rood contractor. Kent had bid in the job of building the Gay stone road. Thomas Cowdin and others protested its acceptance, claiming that it had not been built according to specifications. The county commissioners overruled the objections and Cowdin took an appeal and Judge Wason ruled that the specifications had not been complied with from Stations 0 to 81 and that the location of the road had been charged fStation 73 to 80 without an order of the board. Also that the county engineer and the superintendent of the road bad failed to make a sworn statement to the board that the road was built according to specifications. The case was hard fought, the contractor being represented by Attorneys Sellers and Carey and the taxpayers by Attorneys Pollard, of Delphi, and A. K. Sills, Jr., and G. W. Kassabaum, of Monticello.