| Show GUY ROYCE LOST A EY WORIHNG orv TUB ROC PiLE irr THE GILMX GANG I He Wants 2O000 Daninre From the Citr Arsnmcnts in the Utah Lnke Settlers Damage Salts Against Salt Lake Citr W I Irvine Makes n Proposition For Settlement Settle-ment of tIle Famous Divorce Salt Other Court Mutters The damage suit of Guy C Royce vs Salt Lake city was taken ur before Chief Justice Merritt and a jury yesterday yes-terday morning Attorneys L 1 Armstrong Arm-strong and D N Straup appeared for the plaintiff and Attorneys IS1 D Hose and W G Van Horn represented the cityThe The plaintiff alleged in his complaint that on February 23 1893 he was arrested I I ar-rested and convicted in the police court ion i-on the charge of vagrancy and Sent Sen-t to sixty days imprisonment < in I the city Jail that while he was undergoing under-going the sentence the defendant unlawfully un-lawfully compelled him In company with many others against his will andover and-over his protest to break stones for repairing the roads and that the city did not furnish n proper and safe placd or provide suitable tools to do such work and also failed to provide him with a gar t protect his face whereby the safety of the plaintiff and others was greatly endangered by pieces of stone flying around during the process of breaking It Is then alleged al-leged that a piece of stone struck plaintiff In one eye destroying the sight of it and greatly impairing the sight of the other to his damage In the sum of 20000 for which amount judgment judg-ment is prayed The plaintiffs case was proceeding when it appeared that Royce was convicted con-victed In the police court mder the name of Lewis The plaintiffs asked leave to amend the pleadings which was granted The defendants then claimed they were taken by surprise and a continuance of the case for the term was granted |
