Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Several New Suits Filed. [ARTICLE]

Several New Suits Filed.

Quite a number of new suits have been tiled in the circuit court recently and among them we mention the following: Mrs. Elizabeth Schofield vs. John Schofield et al. Th its is a case brought for maintenance and she asks for SS(M) per year for herself and S3OO for the support of her two children. The parties were married, the complaint alleges, seventeen years ago and lived together until last May, when plaintiff was sent to the asylum, where she remained about two months and was discharged as cured. She alleges also that she was not insane when so declared; that since her discharge from the asylum her husband has refused to take her back to h’s home; that the property which she and her husband had ." •cumulated, amounting to about $7,000, has been deeded away to others, and she asks to have these deeds set aside. The parties resided at or near Brook at the time plaintiff was sent to the asylum, and she is now with relatives in White county while her husband is in Rensselaer. J. 1). Rich of Brook, and several others are made parties to the suit. Another case growing out of the Fanner cattle deals, or supposedly so, is that of Patrick Hnllagan vs. George W. Tanner and Simeon A. Dowell, where plaintiff seeks to recover on two notes given by 'Fanner and Dowell to plaintiff. One of the notes was given in November, 1899, and is for SBOO. The other one is for $275, and was given in March of last year. T. M. Hibler of Joliet, 111., has begun suit against his tenant, W. L. Criswell, of Milroy tp., on a landlord’s lien. Robt. Parker vs. James A. Tribby, et al, attachment. This is a Remington case, and the' defendants conducted a grocery store •hero in the old Hardy Bros, store room, buying the stock of plaintiff. Goods are now in hands of sheriff. Anna Lane et al vs. Morris \\ atson et al, suit for partition. Defendants are alleged to be nonresidents.