Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1920 — KENNEDY WINS LAWSUIT. [ARTICLE]

KENNEDY WINS LAWSUIT.

George W. Kennedy of this city won his case against Jesse E. Dunn for the possession of the former’s two hundred acre farm in Jordan township. Mr. Dunn had lived upon the Kennedy farm for the past three years. The ( first year there was a written lease. The second there was an oral agreement between Kennedy and Dunn. The third year an extension was written on the back of the original lease. The lease and extension provided for the vacation of the farm at the termination of the lease without notice. , ' In the trial of the case here Monday before Justice of the Peace Schuyler C. Irwin, Dunn insisted that the signature to the extension was a forgery, and that he had not had notice which would be required in case the written lease was not effective. 1 - Mr. Kennedy swore that Mr. Dunn did sign the extension. And Attorney C. M. Sands and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer H. M. Mills of The Trust and Savings Bank swore that the signature was Mr. Dunn’s. Justice Irwin found for Kennedy,

giving him possession of the farm and |l5O damages. Mr. Kennedy had rented the farm to E. E. Baughman, who had been 'living on a farm in Hanging Grove township. Baughman had attempted to move upon the Kennedy farm but Dunn would not give him possession and Baughman had to store his goods which he had moved with a farmer living near the Kennedy farm.