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Much Feeling Aroused

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
July
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Much Feeling Aroused

Against the Plaintiff and His Lawyer.

The Extra Tax in Pittsfield on Account of the Suit Will Be Fifty Cents on a $1.000 Valuation and They Don't Like It.

The good people of Pittsfield are very indignant over the judgment obtained against the township by Joseph Gage for damages. After the judgment had been obtained, they put in practical application the referendum at the town meeting leaving it to the tax payers whether or not the case should be carried to the supreme court. The decision was overwhelmingly in favor of so doing. As the case was affirmed there, there was nothing to be done but to spread the judgment and costs upon the tax roll, increasing the town taxes about $500 or about 50 cents on $1,000 valuation. A prominent Pittsfield republican said today that the feeling there was so intense that if attention had been called to the fact that Mr. Butterfield was running for circuit court commissioner last fall he wouldn't have received a dozen votes in the township. He was the plaintiff's attorney. The claim was made that the suit was brought not by the man who received the judgment but by his son and the son was unable to find work among the Pittsfield farmers in consequence so that he was obliged to go to Whitmore Lake. The road on which the damage was sustained has not been repaired and the authorities say will not be.