Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Against the Petitioners. [ARTICLE]

Against the Petitioners.

Judge Palmer rendered his decision in the famous Iroquois ditch case, last Friday evening, holding that the petitioners were liable for the costs made in this long-winded case. The Iroquois ditch was a big drainage scheme proposed several years ago in which the county paid out something like $3,500 in preliminary expenses. Then the matter was dismissed from the commissioners’ court and nothing was done toward collecting the costs for some time. In 1898, we believe, the commissioners entered into a contract with the law firm of Hanley <fc Hunt to collect the costs in the Iroquois case and also in the Wakarusa case—another notorious ditch case which had been pending for a long time and ended in the same manner as the Iroquois case, £nd in which about the same amount of costs were involved—to collect the costs in both cases for about S7OO. The Iroquois case was tried here before Judge Palmer last June and he withheld his decision until now. The Wakarusa case has been in the Cass circuit court for the past year or two and there is no telling when a decision will be reached. It is understood that tho petitioners in the Iroquois case will appeal to the supreme court.