Failed To Fill The Sink Hole

And Failed to Collect Money for Work Done

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SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP WON

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The Suit of the Ypsilanti Contractor for Work Done on a Bad Sink Hole Near the Free Church 

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The township of Superior won its case in the circuit court yesterday. The case was over an attempt to fill the sink hole near the Free church. Louis B. Ashley, of Ypsilanti, took the contract from the township to fill the hole for $425 and started in to do the work, receiving $125 during the progress of the work. As fast as Ashley threw in the dirt an underground current carried it away and Ashley threw up the job and took his tools back to Ypsilanti. He sued the township for $449 work done and claimed that the town board had ordered him to stop work. There had been some talk about hsi (sp) throwing in. frozen dirt as not doing the work in a workmanlike manner, but proof was lacking that Ashley had been ordered to stop and the jury brought in a verdict of no cause of action.

The sink hole is in a swamp and the township officers have about made up their mind that they will have to build the road around the swamp.