Show I filES ANNUAl REPORT Ct City Attorney Dininny Is Proud of Record Made by Hs His Office Dur During lug ing Past Year According to the report ot of City Attorney Attorney ney H J Dininny ted filed Saturday there were 4 40 cases settled durIng in which the city was distinctly Interested as defendant or plaintiff and of that num number number ber 2 25 were decided in favor of the city 5 were compromised 4 were abandoned by the plaintiffs and only 6 were decided against the city In the 5 compromise cases however the city would probably have lost had the compromise not ben been effected which would make at the most only 1 11 eases cases against the city City Attorney Dininny points with pride to the record In the case of Mor Mor Morris ris against the city in which Moris Morris received a verdict for 2 the city held the bond of S Birch the contractor and thu thus escaped the payment In the ease case of A Fred Wey against the city no damages were demanded as the case was merely to sette settle legal matters in regard to the board ot of education Agnes M Coaler Coalter one of the victors against the city won a judgment of but a mo ma mation tion for a new trial Is now pending The largest judgment against the cIty during the ter term of at City Attorney Dininny was that of the Frich Fritch Investment company In which the city paId In damages for property damage damaged through the chang In lag ot of grades The suits against the cf city aggregated claims ot of 26 but the city lost only 2461 through adverse judgments and by compromise During the blen biennial lal period te the city at tome office was caled called upon for 4 legal opinions and drew 3 ordinances as against 18 for the two pevIous previous years Ther There were 36 criminal prosecutions itt In the cour courts in and paid into the city treasury as a resul result In 19 1909 there were 37 prosecutions from which only was receive received by the city There ae are now In appeal In the district court from the criminal division ot of the city court court 37 cases cases City Attorney Dininny compliments his two assistants F J Daly and E A Hog Rog ers for their work during his ton tion and al also o throws a bouquet at Mrs Mr Nele Nellie Montgomer Montgomery his stenographer |