Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — A Remington Lawsuit. [ARTICLE]

A Remington Lawsuit.

The town of Remington vs Ira W. Yeoman. Robt. Parker. John F. Major. William Townsend. John E. Hollett and the Jasper County Lumber Co., is the title of an appealed case filed in the Jasper circuit court last Friday. It seems that in December. 1899, t[je Jasper'County Lumber Co., at Remington, bought two carloads of crushed rock from the town of Remington. the price of which was $75. The books of the town treasurer, Ira W. Yeoman, when he handed them over to his successor last spring, did not show any payment for the above material from the Jasjjer County Lumber Co. The town asked for payment and the company's manager, C. T. Dye, claimed to have paid the old treasurer, Mr. Yeoman. Yeoman denied that he had ever received payment. Suit was brought in Justice Chappell’s court against the ex-treasurer, his bondsmen and the lumber company. The latter, it is said, produced no evidence that it had paid the amount except the oath of Mr. Dye. Mr. Yeoman, on the other hand, introduced sufficient evidence that it had not been paid to justify the court in rendering judgement against the lumber company for the amount. The lumber company has appealed to the circuit court.