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Show Mike Pappas, proprietor of Veterans club entered Veterans hospital this week for observation observa-tion and treatment. His establishment estab-lishment will be closed until he is discharged from the hospital. BINGHAM CITY DEFEATS ISUIT TO BAN RECORDER EXTRA PAY A judgment favoring Bingham Bing-ham City officials, defendants in a case centering on the question of the city council's legal right to pay by resolution the city recorder re-corder an additional monthly wage of $25 for answering police po-lice and water department phone calls, was recorded in the Third District Court. The suit contended that the J city council passed a resolution illegally permitting payment of j the $25 to City Recorder Eugene I Morris. Payment, it was alleged, Should have been granted by means of a published ordinance. Named as defendants were Bingham Bing-ham Mayor R. A. Murano and the four city councilmen Legal action on the case orig- j inally was sought by Ed. W Johnson, former Bingham may-j or, who on Nov. 5 obtained an alternative writ of prohibition, j forbidding payment of the sum i pending trial. When Mr. Johnson John-son withdrew as plaintiff, one of his attorneys, A. C. Cole, assumed assum-ed his position in the action. Suid Third District Judge J. I Allan Crockett, in arriving at a verdict: "It is not the prerogative of the court to substitute its judg- i ment for that of the town coun- j cil in managing the affairs of Bingham. The action of the coun- i cil should only be interfered with if plainly and palpably against the established law. "The duties assigned Mr. Morris, Mor-ris, the city recorder, requiring him to assist the police and water wa-ter departments by taking complaints, com-plaints, were extra duties, not originally required of a record- j er. In the opinion of the court I if the crty council determined to j pay him $25 a month extra for those duties, it may do so." |