Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up Adout the County Capitol. . x The matrimonial business is not very brisk these-days, and few marriage licenses are being issued. The clerk hopes business will pick up after Bryan’s election. —o — ' The county stone crusher was closed down Monday to Invoice and 1 see whether there is any more mon? ey appropriated for this, It is stated that in any event there will be not more than one or two days more work this fall. This throws eieht or ten men out of. employment. —o—■» That the auditor of a county in which he is required to make out a tax duplicate for the collection of city taxes in the city where the county offices are kept is not entitled to extra compensation from the city for such services was decided by the Appellate Court a few days ago. A judgment holding that Samuel M. Kerr, the former auditor of Monroe county, must pay back to the city of Bloomington |460 which he received for making up city tax duplicates in* 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904, was affirmed- The court says the law gave the auditor a salary in full of all services required of him,, and that public policy forbids a public officer to receive fop official services any other remuneration than that prescribed by law. It says that an officer accepts his office subject to all duties affixed to it, and intimates that if he is not willing to perform lhem for the compensation allowed by law his remedy is to resign.

New suits filed: No. 7368. G. O. Stembel vs. Jacob Frances et ai; suit in attachment.* Case since dismissed, matter adjusted and costs paid. 4 No. 7369. The P. C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co., vs. Charles V. May; action for an injunction to restrain from certain work of disturbing plaintiff’s trains on the Panhandle road near Remington during the construction

of the May ditch in Carpenter tp. , No. 7370. Reeay Carvindar vs. Fay Carvinder; suit for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married at Knox, Ind., Sept. 24, 1908, and separated a few days later; that defendant refused and still refuses to live with him and has constantly lived separate from him and has been keeping the company of other men and said she would do so if she saw fit. Plaintiff resides in Hanging Grove, tp.

No. 7371. Owen Hurley vs. Warren Springer; complaint on contract in cleaning out a ditch on defendant’s land in Walker tp. Demand $152.25.