Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1919 — NEW CASES FILED [ARTICLE]

NEW CASES FILED

(No. 9039, filed April 3- James Donnelly, guardian for David L. Halstead vs Roy Lowman. This complaint is set out in detail and alleges that the defendant, Roy Lowman and Grace Powers, conspired together togcheat and defraud the plaintiff, David L. Halstead out of a note held by him in the amount of $8176.19, given by Jacob Rich, of Brook. That because of the-weak-ened mental condition of said Halstead caused by a severe operation, and the trust and, confidence which he had reposed in said Lowman and Powers, saiddMefendants were enabled to and they did persuade said Halstead to , enter -into contract for the purchase of said Lowman of 40 acres of land in Newton township, valued at $l5O per acre, and 40 acres in Barkley township valued at $75 per acre, at a price in excess of $175 per acre. The complaint further alleges that said Lowman in anticipation of the bringing of this action and for the further purpose of sequestering and concealing the money so fradulently procured from said Halstead and to cheat and defraud said Halstead from recovery; said Lowman purchased of Arthur H. Trussell sixty acres of land and conspired with his co-defendant, Walter Harrington, his father-in-law, to take title to said Plaintiff prays for judgment against said Roy Lowman and Walter Harrington in the sum of S9OOO. No. 9040, filed April 3. Bardell vs William J. Rees,‘Ernest Rees, William C. Babcock and Albert H. Hopkins. Action to recover for grain fraudulently sold to the amount of $250.