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Show SALT LAKE CITY SUED ON ACTION OF POLIGE Plaintiff Says He Was Damaged While River Was Being Dragged. Charles Gillmor has filed suit in the Third .District court against Salt. Lake City to collect damages amounting to $61-1, which ho alleges he sustained at the time tho police were dragging tho Jordan river for tho body oiT a man supposed to bo in tho river. The plaintiff alleges that Sergeant JfobertB and Detectives Shannon and Wilson of the police force entered his groiinds, which adjoin the river, accompanied accom-panied by a large forco of men, and also horses and wagons, and that thoy trampled his fields of lucern, damaging the crop to the extent of $54. He alleges al-leges that young trees on the placo were damaged in the sum of $10. The principal cause of damage alleged al-leged is that the officers brought large quantities of dynamite to tho river for tho purpose of exploding it to bring tho bod to tho surface, and that a number of charges of tho unexploded dynamite- wero left near a dam in the Jordan river belonging to the plaintiff, which is used for the purpose of furnishing fur-nishing irrigation water for his crops. It is set forth in the complaint that owing to this d3Tiamito being scattered about it is unsafe to approach tho dam to repair it, and that he -will bo compelled com-pelled to construct a new dam at n cost of $500. The complaint states 'that a claim for the sum sued for was pro sontod to tho City Council over ninety days ago, but that no notice was taken of it. |