Show COURT MAY I CAll HALT I ON COUNTY I I Judge Judge Morse Horse Inclined to Bs- Bs I lieve Plu Plumbing bing Cop Contract tract Irregular I 1 i ij j IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE MAliE I j INTELLIGENT BID Commission Government in County Has Chance to Prove Acts Justifiable Denying Otis tho motion of cou County ty Attorney At- At torney tomey I I. I E. E Willey to dissolve the injun injunction in iu- junction jun and holding that the only oily question n ii involved in the proceeding was the construction on to be placed upon pon the tho statute tat requiring twenty days days' no notice notice notice no- no tice to contractors b before fo the letting of ofa a contract on public work Judge C. C I W. W Morse lu in in the third district court today gave the county until the tho conclusion conclusion I sion ston of tb the trial o of a a. jury case now hOW on before the c court urt to produce authorities in lii the order to show cause why a a. permanent permanent per per- manent injunction should not Issue iEsue restraining restraining re re- straining abd enjoining the tho county comity commissioners commission rs from front entering into a contract Mi Midgley Brothers for th the Installation of boilers and machinery in the he new coul county ty infirmary h hospital it 1 building The actton tc ion was brought t A against the county by b- Henry Henry Green wb who alleged that be he w was s to get and nd s specifications specifications' for th the wo work k until it was 1135 too late ate for him to make a bid Owing to this condition of affairs Green alleges alleges al aI- al- al leges that the people were wre not guen iven en the chance to secure th the lowest t possible hid hid bid through the thc com commissioners and he heske asked to have haye c the commissioners enjoined enjoined en en- joined from entering into entering int into tho tie contract A A temporary i injunction i was issue and aud andis andis audis is is still in f fOrce during durinA the of tho the a action The judge estimated that it it- was as his conviction that the statute requiring twenty ll days dava notice nolle-I to contractors meant th that t th lh the plans plans' and mid specifications should 1 ho on file when the notice 15 advertised od but bitt he hi did not nol make a f formal ruling on this giving the county until the tho conclusion slon sion of the case caRe now in progress t to pro duce authorities s on on its iii contention which was was' to the effect reed that thal the law requires merely that tie the plans and specifications shall be adopted prior to lo the time calling for forbids forbids forbids bids and that a reasonable time shall ha t given glyen to lo contract ori to make bake the bid As Court Interprets L Law w The counts counts- ai d that this tItle was nas as done in this case and that Green had the tho th same sante time lime as time the other contractors who I made their bids The court however held th the ly question was the tho meaning Of f time the statute and Bud In view of the form orm of the thc notice which ieh leads that plans and tg the specifications architect r t 1 are arc at e el l the on n time rile no In of ot time the tI publication h office f Of gave it ii as hl hits his conviction com the Ine legislature In enacting th g the l law w Intended that it should moan that the plans and should be on rile file concurrent e with the tilE publication of the notice e. j evEral witnesses were WE're placed on I he stand d hut but the C larger part r of time the le evidence el tk J t was stricken l from the record e I a after time the ruling of the court that the only question ques IUS tion Ion to h hr he considered r d was the construction tion or of the requirements of or the statute with lh reference to lo the Uie twenty days das publication pub pub- lica tion Architect on Stand Gr Green n that while the th a ai l had the plans and specifications al ons prepared prepared pre pre- pared the specifications for ih th Dunham I specialties Il I were ere not ready The ale cad am-cad- li- li tech lect J J. J R R. tI rl was paced placed on the stand to show that without these thead sped sped- specifications It wO would ld be Impossible to make an Intelligent hid Md ld Unless the county can produce evidence to sube substantial Its Ils contention It Il was the Intention of the that thai the injunction tion tIni would b 11 be sustained and amid in lii thiS thiS' event the commissioners will w have to to re re- re advertise for bids despite the fact that the Hie contract aim eady has been ent entered rEd Into with Brothers rs |