Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — TAGGART WINS CASE. [ARTICLE]

TAGGART WINS CASE.

Orange County Court Rules in Favor of the French Lick Springs Hotel Company Last Monday. Judge Thomae G. Buskirk, in the Orange county court Monday sustained the third section of the demurrer of the French Lick Springs and West Baden Hotel Companies against the petition in quo warranto of the state for a temporary receiver and temporary injunction against gambling at the resorts. In this third section the hotel companies set up that the allegations of the state in its complaint do not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against them. He overruled the two sections of the demurrer in which they assert that the prosecuting attorney was not the proper relator for the state in such proceedings and the state had not the legal capacity to sue. Thomas Taggart, in discussing the decision of Judge Buskirk, said: “The state officials knew vere well that I was trying to get possession of the casino, where gambling was carried on against my will, and that I was in earnest in trying to uproot gambling there. “Knowing that I had instituted suits for this purpose they undertook by a sensational raid and an ill-advised lawsuit to take away the credit that they were aware would be due me if I succeeded in my undertaking. I think I may be pardoned if I say that they ‘butted in’ just to make it appear as if they were doing something.” Attorney General Miller said, before starting for Indianapolis, that the case had been appealed to the supreme court. The transcript he said will be filed with the clerk of the supreme court inside of a week.