Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1914 — SPECIAL TERM aRCUIT * COURT BEING HELD [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL TERM aRCUIT * COURT BEING HELD

Special Judge Wason Hearing the Boyle Ditch Case in Rensselaer. The adjourned term of the Jasper cireußt court, to hear the Boyle ditch case, began on Monday last and is still in progress. The case is before Judge Wason, of Delphi, as special judge. The proposed Boyle ditch starts at the C. & E. I. R. R, a quarter of a mile south and west of Virgie, and follows the line of the Plummer and Cover ditches to the source of the Moffit ditch, about (four miles southwest of Virgie, and then along the line of the Moffit ditch to the Kankakee river, crossing ’the Monon railroad between Fair Oaks and Roselawn. The Moffit ditch was constructed eight or ten years ago but has filled considerably, the greater length of same being through a flat country with but .18 inches of fall to the mile. The proposed Boyle ditch is 13% miles Jong. A large number of remonstrances are on file, all except one raising the question of assessments. The Almira Stockton remonstrance attacks the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that the Moffit ditch which is to be deepened and widened, was constructed by order of the board of commissioners. It seems to be the law that where a drain was made in commissioners court that any change or repair of such drain must be commenced in the same court. But it seems also to be the law that when a drain extends in two counties the circuit count only has jurisdiction. Judge Wason has not ruled on the jurisdiction question as yet. ’The following attorneys are connected with the litigation: Abraham Halleck for petitioners, and for remonstrators Mr. Dunlap, Blue, Cunnihgham, Sellers, Sims, and Williams. Judge Wason will go home for Christmas day and it is probable that it will take a week or ten days to complete the hearing.