Show CiTY GITY ATTORNEY HOLDS BURTON METHOD LEGAL Folland View Clashes With Stand Taken by General Contractors' Contractors Association Association As As- on oh St. St Paving That Thai the city commission lo Is within with with- in its rights in undertaking special improvements and paying for these o out t of the general fund without as assessing assessing assessing as- as abutting property owners wh when n It appears that the public good will be served by such action is the opinion of t City Attorney Wil Wil- liam Ham 1 II I. Folland whose advise was solicited by the commission follow tollow- ing big the filing Wednesday of a protest protest pro pro- test by the General Contractors' Contractors as association association as- as against the Fourth Wet West s ct ire t pavement now in course of cf construction The general contractors' contractors protest took th the tha form of 1 si legal notice to th the Individual ual commissioners and their bondsmen men a as such to the effect that the they would be held r responsible spon for Rn any m illegal expenditures In this work Counsel for th the contractors declared that If the protest w were re not heeded they would go into the district court and pray an injunction tion prohibiting the tha commission through T. T T. T 1 Burton commissioner of OX streets from proceeding with the pavement and the pa payment pa-ment ent for same some out of the general tax fund On receipt of the protest the thA commission commission com cam mission referred it to Mr 1 Folland with a request for tor opinion Mr l Fol Folland lland olland ol- ol land held that the procedure was Raa allright all allright right if it the commission considered that the benefit to bs ha derived from the work would be sufficient to warr warrant nt the undertaking Commissioner Burton advised the commission that a considerable portion portion por par tion of the cost is being met by bj private money mOlley |