Omer Morrow, an employee of the City Street Department, was fined five dollars and
cost Saturday on a charge of using profane language on a public street. A warrant was
served on Mr. Morrow after Mrs. William Ritenour had signed a complaint against him.
She was the principle witness against him at a hearing before Justice of the Peace Robert W.
Lockhart.
The complaint was signed after an incident which occurred near the Ritenour
home in North Fulton last week. The Ritenours had complained that the street near their home
needed attention. Mayor Hill instructed Mr. Morrow to dump a load of road rock on the street.
Mrs. Ritenour testified that she was walking across the yard at her home while Mr. Morrow was working
in the street and that he called to her and said " I don't think this damn street is any worse than the
rest of them" or some such remark. Mr. Morrow entered a plea of not guilty, but after
considerable testimony had been taken he was found guilty and given a minimum fine possible under the terms of the City's ordinances. He objected to the costs of more than five dollars in addition to the fine and informed by Justice Lockhart that he could have an itemized statement of the costs.
