F. C. Verrell service car li- cense Mrs. L. L. Pieplow et al: Appropriation to settle judgment SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas. May 20, 1918. The Council met with all members present. The Mayor laid before the Council the application of F. C. Verrell, 26 Red River street, for public service car license for his Studebaker automobile, No. 70815, which was granted by a vote of 5 yeas. The Mayor offered the following resolution: Whereas, in Cause No. 35901, entitled Mrs. L. L. Pieplow et al vs. City of Austin, in the District Court of Travis County, Texas, judgment was on towit, May 3, 1918, entered against defendant in said cause in favor of plaintiff, Mrs. Louis Lucile Pieplow, for the sum of $1847.56, and for plaintiffs, Clarence John Pieplow and Joe Lewis Pieplow, minors, for the sum of $400.00 each; and Whereas, the City of Austin has heretofore paid and contracted to pay the sum of $353.84 for the personal expenses of his family and funeral expenses of C. J. Pieplow, an employe of the Water, Light and Power Department of the City, who was killed on July 27, 1917, and for whose death damages were sued for by plaintiff in the above named cause; and Whereas, it has been agreed between said City and the Southern Surety Company, for reasons deemed good and sufficient by the City Council, that the Southern Surety Company, as indemnitor of the City, should contribute to the payment of said judgment in the sum of $1,500.00, and that the City should pay the sum of $1,146.16, which said last named amount is the proper balance of said judgment; and Whereas, said Southern Surety Company has actually paid to the City of Austin the sum of $1,500.00 in satisfaction of its part of said agreement; therefore BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: That the sum of $2646.16 be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the Earnings Fund of the Water, Light and Power Department of the City of Austin, for the purpose of paying in full said judgment hereinabove mentioned. BE IT RESOLVED FURTHER: That the City Clerk be and he is hereby instructed to issue warrants against said appropriation, as follows: One warrant in favor of White, Cartledge & Wilcox, attorneys of record for Mrs. Louis Lucile Pieplow, for the sum of $1,846.16, said warrant to be delivered to said payees upon the delivery by them to the City Clerk of a release, duly executed and acknowledged by said Mrs. Louis Lucile Pieplow, releasing in full her judgment against said City; and, further, two warrants, each for the sum of $400.00, in favor of S. A. Philquist, District Clerk, to cover, respectively, the judgments of Clarence John Pieplow and Joe Lewis Pieplow, minors, who are without a guardian, and the payment of whose judgments must be made into the Registry of the District Court of Travis County, Texas, and that said two last named warrants be delivered to said District Clerk upon the delivery by said District Clerk to the City Clerk of a proper receipt for same. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas--Mayor Wooldridge, Councilman Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes, and Powell, 5; nays none. APPROVED, May 20, 1918: A. P. Wooldridge, Mayor. The Council then adjourned. V. E. Martin City Clerk