Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Remonstrators Defeated in the Irwin Stone Road Case. [ARTICLE]

Remonstrators Defeated in the Irwin Stone Road Case.

The S. C. Irwin et al, stone road petition, which secured favorable action in the commissioners’ court and which the remonstrators, Granville Moody, A. O. Moore, William Snedeker and Tom Walters carried to the circuit court on appeal, has sustained a victory in the circuit court, where the trial came to an abrupfcclose when K was shown that the remonstrance failed to comply with the statute in showing that the same was sworn to. Judge Hanley dismissed the case when this deficiency was proven. Had the case been tried on its merits instead of being decided on this technical point, it would have been the aim of the remonstrators not to defeat the ditch but to secure a reduction of their assessments. It is not thought probable that the remonstrators will appeal, and the road, which is badly needed in Barkley township, will probably be built during tile coming suipmer.