Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1913 — DITCH ARGUMENT STARTS TUESDAY [ARTICLE]

DITCH ARGUMENT STARTS TUESDAY

Extra Day Required by Court and Attorneys to Go Over Ryan Ditch and Laterals. Special Judge Cunningham and the attorneys in the Ryan ditch case found that the task of visiting the assessed lands along the route of the main ditch and the laterals more than they could compass in two days and this has altered the program to some extent After spending Tuesday and Wednesday along the route the work is stIH uncompleted and the court and attorneys went out again this Thursday morning. As it had been planned to have the argument started today, it was necessary to revise the program and the time for the argument to start was changed to next Tuesday. Judge Cunningham will spend Sunday with his family at Kentland, and George M. Gilford, executor of the will of Benjamin J. Gifford, who hr carrying out the program of the testator, will spend the intervening time at his home in Tipton. It Is understood that some striking inequalities of assessment have been shown to the court and it is very probable that there will be several modifications bf assessment. Unless these should be so many and so great In the aggregate as to reduce the revenue below the cost of construction, however, it is probable that the ditch will be built as planned, and it Is said that the assessed benefits are considerably in excess of ttoe probable cost of construction.