Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1913 — Gary Real Estate Men Ask Damages of E. D. Crumpacker. [ARTICLE]

Gary Real Estate Men Ask Damages of E. D. Crumpacker.

Former Representative E. D. Crumpacker is the defendant in a suit which was Friday venued from Porter county to Laporte county. The action asks $13,000 damages for Jeffry & Morgan, Gary realty dealers. The complaint says that Crumpacker agreed to sell them twenty acres of land in Tolleston, which is now part of Gary, for $350 an acre, and that they bound the bargain with a payment of SIOO. Later this was returned to them by Mr. Crumpacker, who declared the deal off. The land has sinee soared in price and the Gary firm is trying to hold Mr. Crumpacker responsible for the profit which they 'lost.