Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1906 — COMPROMISED FOR $200. [ARTICLE]

COMPROMISED FOR $200.

Samuel Yeoman Settles Damage Suit Against the flonon.—Other Court Proceedings. The $5,000 personal damage suit against the Monon for alleged injuries received by Samuel E. Yeoman of Virgie while alighting from a train hereabout a year ago, in stepping into a hole in a defective depot platform, was compromised Tuesday by the railroad paying him S2OO. Judge Palmer was here Tuesday to try the Otis ditch case, but about all that was done was to over-rule motion of objector Grantham to reject report of commissioners, to which the exceptors except, and all parties were given 20 days to file all bills of exceptions, and cause continued for term. In the case of Parks vs. Harmon Clark, appealed by the former from the justice’s court at Wheatfield, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Parks, after being out only a few moments. In the justice’s court Clark had obtained a verdict for some $23 for caring for a horse owned by Parks and which he had let John Greve have to keep for a year, and the defense, we understand, was that if anything was due Clark he should go to Greve rather than the owner of the horse. Costs in the case are probably three or four times the sum in controversy. The jury was discharged Thursday after hearing but one oase. Printzess coats are the acknowledged style leaders. All the new styles at Rowles & Parker’s.