More Injunctions

MORE INJUNCTIONS

Taken Out Against the Saline Ypsilanti Road.

TROUBLE IN PITTSFIELD

And a Hint Thrown Out that Pittsfield Franchise.

The Farmers Don't Like the Grade, the Ditches, the T Rails and Want Access to a Cider Mill and Opportunity to Build a Sidewalk.

Two injunction suits have been commenced today against Robert Hemphill, sr. , Henry P. Glover and the Ypsilanti & Saline electric railway company. One suit is commenced by Jacob Aray and Martha Day and the other by John Sutherland.

The complainants live in Pittsfield township upon the highway known as the Chicago road and their bills set forth that the Ypsilanti & Saline electric railway company are constructing a road between Ypsilanti and Saline and that the construction of the road has proceeded to within a few rods of Aray and Day's premises and to within three-quarters of a mile of Sutherland's, that the railroad is being constructed on the north side of the road and within two or three feet of the fence and too near to permit the construction of a sidewalk and that the road bed does not conform to the grade of the highway but is made by cuts and fills often two feet in depth or height and that from 2,000 to 2,800 wooden ties are placed per mile and upon them is placed an ordinary Trail. Ditches are constructed on each side of the road bed so that the complainants claim they will be unable to pass over the road to the highway without great inconvenience and that their lands will be depreciated in value to the extent of $500 each.

Aray and Day show that they have a cider mill which cost $1,500 on the north side of the road at which they have manufactured 1,500 barrels of cider in a season and that the road will interfere with the operation of such cider mill by blocking the highway.

The bills further set up that the franchise received April 27, 1899, by Hemphill and Glover from the officers of Pittsfield township conveys no rights whatever to them or the railroad and that the work is being done without any lawful authority. Temporary injunctions have been issued in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners. Lawrence & Butter field are their attorneys.