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Show ROOSTER SCRATCHED $100 WORTH OF LAWK? "Don Pedro II.," a big light Brahma rooster, and his family have made their owner, J. M. Leonard, 865 South Sec-ond Sec-ond West street, much trouble. Martin Donovan, a neighbor at 879 South Second Sec-ond West street, has filed suit in the civil division of the City court against Leonard and his wife, in which he asks $100 damages. .: Martin alleges that the chickens have for the past year scratched his lawn, eaten the buds on the shrubbery, sunned themselves on the front porch, dug up the flower beds, stolen the bones from the family dog, and In numerous ways annoyed him. Despite the frequent fre-quent chases given the fowls by Martin, Mar-tin, broom handle in . hand, the birds have refused to stay away. The $100 asked, it is asserted, is none too large for the damages alleged to have been done. - v |