Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1915 — CASES DISPOSED OF IN CIRCUIT COURT [ARTICLE]

CASES DISPOSED OF IN CIRCUIT COURT

Bruford Gets $75 Judgment—Weiss Fined For Allowing Minors to Play Pool—Other Cases. Hickman vs. Donnelly. Upon applicotion of plaintiff cause venued to Newton county. Callahan vs. Wood. Dismissed at plaintiff’s costs. Judy "vs. Brown. Venued to Newton county on motion of plaintiff. Linton vs. Eichelberger. Judgment for plaintiff for $51.25. York vs. Rhoads Estate. Submitted to the court and taken under advisement. D. S. Makeever vs. Baker Estate. Judgment for plaintiff in sum of $39. Rensselaer Lumber Co. vs. Gilmore. Judgment for plaintiff in sum of $325 with lien against building foreclosed. (Parr creamery). Bruford vs. Eichelberger. Tried by jury and verdict for plaintiff in sum of $75 for injury to plaintiff’s hand while employed in cement tile works. Chapman vs. Knight. J. H. Chapman appointed guardian of Nancy Knight. State vs. Hendrickson. Fined $5 and costs for permitting minor to play pool, and $5 for permitting minors to congregate in pool room. State vs. Weiss. Fined $5 and costs for allowing minors to play pool and pleads not guilty to allowing minors to congregate in pool room and gives bond of SIOO for appearance at September term.

State vs. Harmon Clark. Fined $5 and costs for intoxication. State vs. Weiss. Fined $5 and costs for allowing miner to play pool and pleads not guilty to charge of keeping a public nuisance. Gives bond for SIOO for appearance September term. State vs. Langdon. Fined $5 and costs for intoxication. State vs. George Hohen. Charged with four indictments, three of whieh are for giving liquor to minors and the fourth a blind tiger charge. Defendant appeared with P. R. Blue, his attorney, and entered plea of not guilty to each charge and gave bond of SIOO, each charge, for appearance at September term. Spriggs vs. Spriggs. Heard before the court. There was question of advancements to certain heirs, made by Joel F. Spriggs in his lifetime. The court has not made his finding as yet. It is understood that land will be ordered sold by a commissioner and R. A. Parkinson was agreed upon. Chapman & Blue represented plaintiff, Simon Spriggs. The defendants were represented by Williams, Laßue and Leopold. x Schneidt Case! This case came from Lake county on change of venue. It was an action by Julia Schneidt to set aside a divorce, which her husband obtained about ten years ago. These parties lived in Muskegon, Mich., from marriage in 1882 to 1892, at which time he left her and their three children. The complaint alleges that he left secretly and that plaintiff made every effort to locate him but without success. He settled in Hammond, Ind., and there applied for and was given a divorce, making an affidavit that he did not know where his wife resided. Later he married again and then died, having been killed by a railroad train. He left his second wife and a child and considerable property in the way of insurance and a valuable lot in Hammond. The first wife hopes to reach this property by setting aside the divorce which her husband obtained from her in 1905 on the ground that such divorce was obtained fraudulently and that at the time of his death she was his legal wife. The court heard argument and sustained a demurrer to the complaint of Julia Schneidt and appeal was granted to the supreme court, It is a novel legal proposition and it is hoped that such a final decision may be rendered as will give ample justice to both women and their respective children as is possible to give under the circumstances.