Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1909 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Fowler Republican: Things are quiet in court. A case from Warren county was compromised and the Townsend case from Jasper qounty goes over to the next term. The Hurst estate case comes up next yeek. .J. N. Leatherman has bought of B. J. Gifford 96 acres of land adjoining the 40 acres which he bought of the McCoy estate a few years ago, in Barkley township, IYa miles east and % mile south of Aix. The consideration stated in the deed is $2,880. In the case of Ora Barce vs. John Barce for divorce, the defendant has filed an answeer in denial of each and every paragraph of the complaint. The case is not set down for trial at this writing, but judging from the answer of defendant, he expects to fight the granting of a decree to plaintiff. Foltz & Spitler -are defendant’s attorneys. Attorney G. .E. Hershman of Crown Point was over yesterday looking up matters in the American Lubric Oil and Refining Co., which operated alleged oil fields in Gillam and Walker townships, this county, and recently went into the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are said to be some $78,000 and assets quite small. George is representing several of the labor claimants. New suits filed: No. 74 42. Albert Konovsky vs. the Board of Commissioners; appeal from commissioners’ court. This is the application for license for a saloon at Demotte, which was turned down by the commissioners at their April term on the grounds that the remonstrance filed last October was good. The old remonstrance in Keener tp., did not expire until March 29, 1908, but the remonstrators came in last October, when no application was pending, based on the vote, of course, of two years ago, when a very light vote was cast. The contention of the applicant’s attorneys is that the remonstrance filed in October was not good; that there was no application pending at that time, and that to defeat the license asked for this month the remonstrance must be based on the vote of 1908, which was much heavier than in 1906, and w r ould require many more names than appear on the former remonstrance. No. 7443. Melvin Mudge vs. Albert S. Hull; change of venue, case sent here from the Lake Circuit Court. No. 7444. William E. Moore vs. Board of Commissioners; appeal from ruling in Weurthner ditch. No. 7445. Emma M. York, adm., vs. Emma M. York; petition to sell real estate.