Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1906 — Jordan Road Contractors Enjoined. [ARTICLE]

Jordan Road Contractors Enjoined.

Hawkins & Allman, contractois for the new Jordan road, were serv -ed with a temporary injunction or restraining order Thursday afternoon, on complaint of C. Sternberg & Sou, contractors for the Iroquois ditch. It was to restrain them from taking any more rock out of the river at tne place where they are uw working, and near where their rock crusher has been standing, near Kellner's ice house. The road contractors h ive been taking out ■ the rock on permission of Mr. Kell luer, who owns the laud right along there where the ditch passes, and who has proceeded on the theory that as the owner of the land he is also owner of the rock in the future ditch which the ditch contractors have drilled and blasted but have not yet removed from the line ol the ditch Sternberg & Son hav* brought the injunction on the theory that they have control if not ever ' ownership of the rock until it is removed from the line of the ditch. Their objection to the road men I taking the rock from that place is not based on any general opposi tion to having the rock taken out. but only to having it taken from that particular place. It appears that Sternberg & Son have chosen ' that particular place as the location I of a dam to back up the water when the dredge comes down, and they j want the loose rock left there to use for the purpose.