Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1916 — $5,000 LIBEL SUIT IS FILED HERE [ARTICLE]

$5,000 LIBEL SUIT IS FILED HERE

Jacob Ochs, Remington Citizen, Files' Suit For $5,000 Damages Against William Zimmerman; — Jacob Ochs, Jr., has just filed in the Jasper circuit court a complaint against William Zimmerman for libel, in which he demands $5,000 damages. This case seems to be destined to be even more interesting than the church mixup over at Remington some time ago in which action was brought in court for damages. The complaint alleges that Ochs was a rural mail carrier on route No. 2 out of Remington and that the defendant, Zimmerman, is deputy marshal of Remington and that the defendant willfully and maliciously, meaning and intending to defame and injure the plaintiff iff his reputatioh and character in the community in which he lived and to cause the plaintiff to lose his job as rural mail carrier, wrote a _ letter to the superintendent of rural free delivery in which he made certain charges against Ochs. Ochs denies these charges absolutely, stating in his complaint that they are false, malicious and defamitory and that the letter was written to the postoffice department for the purpose of causing him to lose his job, injure his reputation and for the further purpose of humiliating him. An investigation of the charges seem to disclose that they were unwarranted as Mr. Ochs is still in his position and we understand that he was exonerated by the postal department from these charges. Mr. Ochs is a man who was born and raised in Remington and we understand his reputation has never been questioned. The case is filed by John A. Dunlap and W. H. Parkinson and will be watched with considerable interest by the citizens of Remington.