Show VALUE or OF aw AN EYE A vagrant sues the city tor for twenty thousand dollars when guy C royce was found guilty of vagrancy in the police court on oil january 23 and assigned rock pile for sixty days it was of course impossible to torsee farsee that a damage suit would ensue otherwise sentence would in all probability have been suspended suspend edvind and royce hoyce riven given tile dhe customary twenty four dictums do 40 travel put but asit as it lt was koyce boyco was sent out wah with a gangoff panr or prisoners to city creek canyon can yon to break rock and vilgil le so engaged on february 21 1893 a piece of rock broken front from a stone by another prisoner him in ho he face ace destroying ying the sight of the rihl right eye end impal the sight of ill the other one soon after dwyce billed a damage suit against the city alleging tint that olis injuries were duo due to the of 0 the city tor for the he acason that he be and tile the other prisoners were compelled to work tn in an insufficient unsafe and dari dan eerola place awl aind were not provided with suitable tools the rhe case was called before merritt merrelt yesterday D N 0 den ailles and IA ill armstrong for far the plaint lITand and E D and W G van thorne for the defense def ensa after the reading of a deposition the attempted to prove by the records of the police court that he was sentenced to sixty days for or vagrancy as alleged in the complaint but as lie lia was convicted and sentenced under the name naine of J C bowls lie was not allowed to the record for the tha breason that ho he did not allege conviction under the name of lewis in his complaint the plaintiff was then allowed to 10 amend his complaint in that tar lir and as the defense thereupon insisted r that they had bad been taken by surprise the case was continued lor for the term |