Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — Contractors Sue County. [ARTICLE]

Contractors Sue County.

Evansville, Aug. 29.—A suit for $25,000 has been filed in the superior court here by Smith & Trussler. road contractors, against Louis Wlnternheimer, John Koch and Walter Williams, county commissioners of Vanderburg county; Willis Copeland, county auditor; Newton W. Thrall, county treasurer, ano August Pfaflin, county surveyor. In the complaint it is set out that the county officials unlawfully awarded the contract for the building of the Slaughter avenue road to Philip J. Euler, as he was not the lowest bidder. After the contract was awarded, a suit w’as filed against Euler and the county officials by another contracting firm to enjoin them from building the road. Philip C. Gould, judge of the circuit court, in commenting upon a dispatch sent out from Inditinapolis to the effect that he would ask for ac investigation of the way the county commissioners here have been letting road contracts, stated that he would order the investigation in the event that the state board of accounts turned up sufficient evidence, as had been Intimated.