Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Items of Interest Gathered in the Office* and Corridor* of the County Capitol. Marriage licenses issued: Deo. 12, Edward Shfffer to Nellie May Iliff. Dec. 14, Elmer B. Monesmith to Clara Sims. Dec. 16, Ora Craver to Emma Johnson. —o— New Buits filed: No. 6593. Jacob J. Keller vs. John Mohler; action in foreclosure. No. 6594. Cortland Cook et al vs. Chandler Oil Co.; action on lein. No. 6595. Michael Messner vs. George R. Davis, etal; action in foreclosure. The will of the late Dr. Washburn was .filed for probate Tuesday. It was executed Jan. 25,1892, and bequeaths all testator’s property both real and personal, to his wife, Mrs. Martha A. Washburn. The two sons, Warren W. and Dr. I. M. Washburn, are administrators. It is reported that the commissioners of White county have contracted for a tax-ferret “investigation” in that county on a 35 per cent basis, with J. B. Workman, ex-auditor of Owen county, who has had charge of the “investigation” here for the past three or four years. We thought better than this of White county. James N. Leatherman, auditor elect, filed his official bond last week in the sum of SIO,OOO, with James T. Randle, Albert Hopkins, Charles W. Coen, William S. Day, Wm. C. Babcock, A. K. Yeoman, J. C. Gwin, J. D. Babcock, J. L. Babcock, D. H. Yeoman, Granville Moody and Walter V. Porter as sureties. The bond was approved by the commissioners. The appellate court on Tuesday handed down a decision in the case of Ben Hart vs. J ohn Kellner, John Bill, trustee of Jordan tp., et al, sustaining the decision of the lower court. The court held: “Surface water flowing- from higher ground along a natural depression in excess of the capacity of a tile drain therein may lawfully be repelled by the lower landowner by means of an embankment. The rule* as to obstructing water courses do not apply to surface water.*' The defendants were represented in the case by Attorneys E. P. Honan and C. W. Hanley. The case was tried in 1901 and a decision rendered against Hart, who appealed to the supreme court. The costs in the case are quite heavy, probably amounting to SSOO, which fall on plaintiff Hart.