Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1912 — JUDGE AND ATTORNEYS WENT OVER THE DITCH. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE AND ATTORNEYS WENT OVER THE DITCH.

Special Judge Decides to Start Cbm By Visiting. Stream Which 1$ is Proposed to Straighten. Judge John W. Hanan Monday afternoon determined to get at the very bottom of the ditch case he is trying at the outset and be arranged with the attorneys to go over the proposed drainage. Accordingly, in company with Attorneys Williams, Wilson, Dunlap and Foltz, the morning was spent on the north side of the Iroquois. The judge and attorneys walked over much of the land as far as Lamson'* bridge. They returned at noon and In the afternoon Engineer Hugh Gamble joined the party and the south side of the river was gone over. Judge Hanan is probably one of the most competent drainage attorneys in Indiana, having been Connected with many important cases in Steuben, Noble, Lagrange, Kosciusko and Elkhart counties. He has officiated as judge in a number of extensive drainage suits. He was also the author indirectly at legislation passed for the protection of our fresh water lake* from being drained out He was associated with Governor Marshall in several ditch cases when the governor was practicing at Columbia City. The attorneys who have met him are very favorably impressed with both his ability and bis fairness and the big ditch case will apparently be tried with the single aim of arriving at a decision fair to all litigants.