Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — SPPREME COURT FINDS FOR DEFENDANT [ARTICLE]

SPPREME COURT FINDS FOR DEFENDANT

• Suit of Patrick Hallagan ya Simeoi Dowell Decided at Last In Supreme Court. The suit of Patrick Hallagan, oi this city, filed in court in 1910, so; $2,000 against Simeon A. Dowell, hai at last been decided. The cour found for the defendant In the circuit court Hallagan won the case anc in 1913 it was sent to the supreme court. The following account of the case is taken from the Bedford Fret Press, of Bedford, Iowa: “In 1910 Patrick Hallagan brought suit in the district court of this county against Simeon A. Dowell to recover judgment for $2,000 on a judgment rendered in the circuit court oi Rensselaer, Ind. The defendant answered that he had been discharged in bankruptcy in 1902 and was therefore freed from this judgment. Plaintiff replied that his judgment was not one dischargeable in bankruptcy. A jury being waived, the case was fried by H. K. Evans, who found against the defendant and rendered judgment for over $2,000 and costs. The defendant, by his attorney, Frank Wisdom, appealed to the supreme court and in January, 1913, the judgment of the lower court was affirmed. Thereupon the defendant filed a petition for rehearing, which was argued orally and otherwise in the supreme court at its May, 1913, term. A rehearing was granted and the case was again re-argued at the September, 1913, term of the supreme court and finally submitted. On Monday of this week, all of the members sitting, the supreme court reversed itself, and also the lower court, and has remanded the cause with instruction to the lower court to enter judgment for the defendant, Dowell.