Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — THE KETMAN DITCH. [ARTICLE]

THE KETMAN DITCH.

Present Status of Drainage Scheme Which Affects Some People in Jasper. Pulaski County Democrat: The Monon ditch matter is up in the air again. Special Judge Foster having declined to serve further in the matter. Judge Foster was here -from Knox Monday. It will be remembered that both petitioners and remonstrators objected to the finding of facts and conclusions of law filed by him recently. Monday, on consent of the parties, he withdrew his findings in order to amend them. After making a few changes he again filed them, inserting some missing land descriptions and raising his assessment on the Charles Clark land from $1 to $2 per acre. The viewers assessed it at about $2.25; Judge Foster first ruled that it should be sl, but has now changed it to $2. This change appears to have been satisfactory to the petitioners, but the remonstrators at once filed er motion for a new trial. So that is the way it stands at present —a motion for a new

trial pending, no judge to hear it and no judge in sight.