Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — Lawyers Get Bib. Fee In Noted Ketman Ditch Case. [ARTICLE]

Lawyers Get Bib. Fee In Noted Ketman Ditch Case.

Attorney Oscar B. Smith, of Knox, and J. M. Spangler and Caleb Barker, of Winamac, have-been allowed a fee of in the noted Tony L. Ketman ditch. The amount of the fee was determined upon Friday, at Winamac, when Special Judge Sties, who had established the work, heard evidence upon the subject. Attorneys were placed upon the stand and asked what the fee should be in the case. Some of them placed it as high as 135,000. This case was begun seven years ago and has been vigorously contested in the Pulaski and upper courts ever since. Smith & Spangler carried the contest on for the greater part of the time but finally Mr. Barker became associated with them. It is understood the fee will be spilt up forty per cent each for Smith and Spangler and twenty per cent for Barker. It is one of the largest fees ever allowed in a single ease in this circuit, and the case was one of the longest and hardest fought of any in either county.