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OIDINAG NO. .J&n...
AN OIilINAa: PROVmIm FOR THE: 'JERMINATION OF lEGAL SFaRVICES OF MR.
E1UI!:s.T A. KNIPP IN COmECTION WITH CAUSE. NO. 391,299, IN THE: DISTRICT
COURT OF HARRIS COum'I. mAS. 80m JtmlICIAL nISTRICT, STYIED 'STAS
OF 1EX.1\S. EX. RE:L.. MRS. sm: PILLOT ET. AL. VS. TIm CITY OF LA. POd,.
ET. AL.; AND FURTHER PROVIDIM6 FOR PAYBN'l' OF ATTORI&Y'S PEES TO CITY
A~ORNE'I. EDWARD J. CAlE.. FOR SE:RVICES .R&N[EHJID IN CONNECTION THESWIm
OVER AND ABOVE: REGULAR DUTm8, AS CITY AT'l'ORNa.
WHEREAS, by' Ordinance No. "12 , dated ~ l?, ,Q;l, the
City at La Porte employed MJ... Ermst A.. Knipp, Attorney at Law, to
detem the suit reterred to in this caption, aId
WHEB&AS, :the tee at i'wo ThousaDi Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00)
tor such services has heretofore been paid to :MJ... Knipp, am
WHERE'AS, all at the matters in controversy in said suit have been
compromised and settled am the dismissal ot said suit provided tor. thereby'
terminating the need for such legal services, alii
WHEBAS:, the relators in said suit have reimbursed the City at
La Porte tor certain costs in connection with said suit includ~ attorneys'
tees as tollowss Mt-. Ernest A. Knipp, $2,400.001 For..r'~City. AttorDe7,Carl C.
Patrick, $500.00; City Attorne,. Eeward J. Cade, 1'00.00, am
WBEm'.AB. the month~ retainer provided tor in another ordinance to
be paid to the City Attorney, Edward J. Cade, is compensation for ordinary
am routine duties, it being understood that the said City A.ttorne,. shall " .
receive additiom1 compensation tor services rendered in connection with law
suits alii other cases which require an unusual amount of time over am above
ordinary' am routine matters as may be agreed 'upon by the City Commission aDi
the City Attorney:
NOW i'HI!:REFORE:, BE: IT ORDAINED BY TH& CITY COMMISSION OF THC CITY OF
LA PaRm, 1EXAS:
Section 1. '!'bat the services at ME-. Ernest A. Knipp, Attorney' at
Law, in connection with the employ'ment reterred to in the ordinance above,
be, am the same are hereby' terminated as of September 22, 1952, the date
said controversy referred to above was tinalJ.y settled am the ordinance
discontinuing certain territory Was. completed.
S'ection 2. That the Director of Finance 1281' forthwith to City Attorney'
Edward J. Clde, the sum ot Five Hundred Dollars (I500.00) for services rendered
in connection with said suit and disannexation procedure.
Passed and effective this ~q ot October, A. D. 1952.
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M. D. Burgin, Mqo~
C:ity of La Porte, Texas
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