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Show PIHEE BANK MD LEWIS BLOCK 1 LIMIT Alleging that the massive columns of tho Pingree National bank oxtond over three feet ca3t of the property line, obstructing the view of his busl-npss busl-npss block and shutting out the natural na-tural light, J. S. Lowis some months ago commenced an ncbon against tho Pinurce National bank for $2500 damages dam-ages and for the removal of tho bank back to tho property line, Tho caso was today taken up fori trial bofore Judge F. C. Loofbourow of tho Third Judicial district, the caso bolng brought before him because the judges of this district arc disqualified. The hearing Is being held in Judge Harris' court room. Tho witnesses called to tostify for tho plaintiff today were A. B. Vlllad-sen, Vlllad-sen, the man who constructed tho hank, and Washington Jenkins, city engineer and old-time county sur voyor. Villadsen testified that the bank building projects out on the sidewalk a llttlo more than thr;e feet and that, while doing tho construction work, the front was completely obscured from outsido view. Tno "purpose of the enclosuro, ho said, was to protect people against injury while the building build-ing was In progress and also to pre vent them from entering tho place and intorfering with the workmen. On cross-examination, tho witness said that when the columns were about four foot high, tho defendant camo Into the building and saw that tho columns wero extended beyond the property linos. Tho tostlmony of Washington Jenkins Jen-kins was to the original and presont surveys of the property linos on Washington avenue, between Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth strocts. |