Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest Gathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. —o — There were 16 marriage licenses issued last month, against 12 for the month previous, and 10 for November, 1903. —o — Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 30, William Rolla Gates to Dora Leota Critser. Nov. 30, William J. Anderson to Nora Morlan. —o — Another eighty in School Section 16, Keener township, was sold a few days ago to Rowke Sipkema; consideration $27.50 per acre, the appraised valuation. —o — There were no unloaned school funds on hand Dec. 1. In fact there are applications, a dozen or more, on file for school funds, probably enough to take up all funds for the next three months. —o — A break in the steam pipe leading from the heating plant to the court house, caused cold toes at the latter place Wednesday forenoon and forced the judge to adjourn court until the break was repaired, which was completed about 1 p. m.

O- .l-v-New suits filed: No. 6750. First National Bank of Rensselaer vs. Silas Potts; action on note. No. 6751. James H. Chapman, trustee of Alfred McCoy, bankrupt, vs. Mattie A. Rinehart and William A. Rinehart, her husband; action to recover possession of a certain gasoline engine and fixtures, one feed grinder and fixtures, one pair 5-ton scales and one pair 4-ton scales, which defendants are claiming and refuse to turn over the possession of. —o — The Supreme Court has held that when a lot owner builds his house so that it extends over upon another lot, and occupies it for twenty years as his own, he acquires title to so much of his neighbor’s lot as occupied, although he intended to put the house on his own lot, and always thought it stood there. The question prose in a dispute over a strip of land in Peru, on which the owner of the adjoining lot had built his house in 1842. No question was suggested as to the location of the line until nearly forty years afterward, and suit was not brought after the house had stood there for sixty years.

—o — The county council at its special session Wednesday made the following additional appropriations for 1904: Repairs to surveyor’s level, S2O. For employing additional counsel in prosecuting the criminal cases against the McCoys, SI,OOO. For sprinkling streets about public square, $45.00. For repairs to steam pipe main to court house, $50.00. For medical attendance of poor at county farm and jail, $36.00. Additional appropriation for repairs to the Burk’s bridge, $725. The original appropriation for this was $750, but it seemed no one wanted to undertake the repairs for that sum. It is expected that the $1,475 will bring bidders. For re-binding commissioners’ records 1 and 2, $20,00. Frank J. Babcock, John Martindale, Jay W. Williams, W. V. Porter, Robt. S. Drake, and John S. Haan were the members of the council in attendence, and all voted for the thousand dollar appropriation to employ additional counsel to prooecute the McCoys except Babcock, who apparently thought it a waste of good money, and we believe that he is more than half right.