Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1914 — EXPENSIVE COSTS IN COLLECTION SUIT [ARTICLE]

EXPENSIVE COSTS IN COLLECTION SUIT

Witnesses From Cincinnati Have Costs Aggregating $36 in Suit Involving $18.43. Hoile Bros., of Knimaii, were defendants in-a suit for $16.43 brought by the Rich Pump Co., qf Cincinnati. The defendants claimed they had paid the account. To present their case the pump company sent its bookkeeper and stenographer, Misses Bertha Lang and Emm(| Hartmann, here to testify in the case. Charles Hoile, one of the brothers, contended that he had sent to the company a check he had received for threshing, but he could not recall whose check it was and the. young ladies stated that no such check had been received. The jury found for the plaintiff and as the young ladies filed claims for their witness fees and mileage from Cincinnati, the costs of the case amounted to three or four times the amount involved and this will all be charged to the defendant.