Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — FOR THE DEXTER DITCIL. [ARTICLE]

FOR THE DEXTER DITCIL.

Sustains Demurrer to Complaint of Cordelia M. Willfams—Plaintiff Elies Bond for Appeal. Judge Wason came over from Delphi Friday and ruled in the case of Cordelia M. Williams vs. County Surveyor Osborne, and the petitioners for the _Dexter ditch. This case came into court following the sale of the -construction of the ditch 6y Mr. Osborne to B. D. Comer, On the day of the sate - tonttorney for Mrs. Williams caused to be read to the assembled dredge men a statement alleging that the proceeding was illegal and that they proposed to fight the payment of the assessments on the Makeever lands. The threat threw a big scare into the dredge men and they withdrew and for a time it looked as though the ditch would not sell, but Barney D. Comer later bid it in. The suit was then started and Judge Wason was called as special Judge. He ruled that the demurer of the defendant’s attorney, A. Halleck, was good, and decided against the plaintiffs, who gave notice of appeal and filed an appeal bond in the sum of S2OO.