Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — FOURTEEN-YEAR FIGHT ENDED. [ARTICLE]

FOURTEEN-YEAR FIGHT ENDED.

Lawsuit Between Indiana Men Travels Through Five Courts. After fourteen years of controversy the celebrated case of the Turpie brothers, of Lafayette, against’ Hugh Lowe, of Monon, came to an end in the Cass County Circuit Court ar Logansport. The suit was tiled in February, 1886. and was tried before Judge Adams in Clinton County, the original demand being $200,000 duhiages for an alleged breach of trust. A judgment was given Lowe, but the Supreme Court reversed it in 1888. It then went to Cass County and was tried, hut both sides being dissatisfied with the verdict a new trial was obtained. The ease was then consolidated with one tiled against the Tttrpies by a man of the name of Horner and one tiled by the Tttrpies’ wives for the value of land in Ohio. Judge Frazer tried the consolidated cases and rendered judgments in favor of the Tttrpies and against Lowe, aggregating $311,872. In May, 1896, the higher court reversed the judgment. The fifth trial was had before Judge Watkins, of Huntington, and closed with a judgment for Ixtwe amounting to $12,067 and costs, the aggregate not being known. Twenty witnesses, two attorneys, one judge and one of the plaintiffs have died since the case was filed.