Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1907 — MONON TO HAVE SALOON. [ARTICLE]

MONON TO HAVE SALOON.

Remonatrator* In Old Case Allowed Matter to Drag and Are Caught Napping. For eight years the case of Chas. Cochell vs. Lewis O Reynolds and others has been carried on the docket and called term after term and allowed to go over because Mr. Cochell didn’t care to preaa it and the defendants priid no atten* tion to it. This was th** case in which the commissioners at their Jone term, 1899, refused to grant a saloon license to Charles Oochell because a remonstrance had been filed against him. Cochell took an appeal to the circuit court claiming that the remonstrance whs not good because the names were signed by E B Sellers and U. S Hussey as attorneys in fact. The White circuit court sustained the action of the commissioners and Cochell appealed to the Supreme Court, where the case whs reversed and sent back to White County for rehearing This was eight, years ago. In the meantime EdCochell, brother of Charles, had procured a license and Charles didn’t care to press his application The case was never dismissed, however, and when the existing Monon saloons were knocked out by blanket remonstrance under the Moore law, Cochell thought it a good time to press his old application. He was able to prove a good moral charac ter and under a recent decision of the supreme court in a case taken up from Benton county Judge Was, n was compelled to grant the license. The remonstrators were represented by Palmer & Carr and Jas. T. Graves Reynolds and Sills represented Cochell. The remonstrators gave notice of motion for a new trial If this is overruled Cochell will be entitled to license immediately on paying for same and filing bond. —White County Democrat