Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1914 — CIRCUIT COURT NOTES; ALL THAT OCCURS [ARTICLE]

CIRCUIT COURT NOTES; ALL THAT OCCURS

New Cases, Those Advanced and Finally Disposed of Are All Chronicled Here. Probate. Estate of Cornelius Dertein. Rev. P. Swart and Henry C. DeKock executors. Will probated. Executors file inventory showing value Of personal estate to be S3OO. The will provides that if the wife of testator survive him, his property shall go to her during her natural life and then to the Dutch Reformed Church of DeMotte, Ind. The George Reusch land in Newton* township has been sold by the heirs to James A. Gilmore for $2,843.00, an average of s7l per acre. Sarah Platt estate. Property sold for $l,lOO to John Beckman. Deed approved and administrator directed to take a mortgage from the purchaser to secure the notes - for unpaid interest price. . J_._ Civil. The Isch vs. Tribby case, so long pending, has finally been disposed of by settlement between the parties. Judgment for defendant on his cross-complaint quieting his title to nw% section 2; also nw% of se’A of section 3, all in township 31 north, range 5 west, and the defendant waives all claims he may have had against plaintiffs. Dewey vs. Ross, No. 8148, dismissed by plaintiff. Judgment *• >r defendant for costs. Dewey vs. Ross, et al, No. 8194. Complaint filed; also affidavit of non-residence for certain defendants and process ordered to sheriff of Jasper county for the defendants D. 8. and Emma Makeever, returnable April 30th, 1914. Higher Courts. Ryan Ditch Case. The briefs of appellees (petitioners) are being printed and it is understood that when the briefs are filed in the supreme court they will be accompanied by a petition to advance the cause, and that the remonstrators (appellants) will join in such petition to advance in order to get an early disposition of the case. The ease of First National Bank vs. Ransford, pending in the appellate court, was included in the last distribution and a decision will probably be rendered within a couple of weeks.