Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Judge Thompson, who has been confined to the house since returning from spending the winter in Florida, seems to be improving somewhat and may be able to soon be about again. His trouble is heart and kidney ailment. Walter Doty-of near Lake Village, who is supposed to have been connected with the robbery of an old man near that place for which young Bumgardner was sent to the reformatory last week, was brought over from Kentland yesterday and lodged in jail to await trial in the Newton circuit court. * * New suits filed: No. 7598. Lizzie B. Faris vs. Lizzie B. Faris, adm. of estate of William Paris, deceased.; claim of $119.60 for funeral .expenses of wife of said decedent, $136.50 for money advanced for the purchase of medicine for wife of said decedent and also for said decedent; SSO for moneys loaned in May 1908 and note taken, and $5.50 interest on said 1 note. Total, $311.60. No. 7599. Lizzie B. Faris, adm. vs. Charles W. Faris, et al; petition to sell real estate. No. 7600. John C. Vanatta vs. American Lubric and Refining Co., et al; action to quiet title. —o— As The Democrat has previously stated, we don’t know whether the state accounting law is going to prove a good thing or the reverse, it not having yet been tried long enough to determine, yet there are some localities that have been benefitted in which the people are loud in its praise. Down in Delaware county, for example, an ex-city treasurer of Muncie was found to be SIO,OOO short after three sets of expert accountants had gone over his books. The money was paid in after the public accountants had found the shortage; and now, in the same county, a township trustee is found to owe his township $12,368.53. The total expense of the field examiners there has been trilling, and it will be hard to convince the taxpayers in that county that he law is not a good thing. ——o Not very much has been doing in the circuit court since our last report. The jury is called for to-day when the cases of Babcock vs. Washburn are called. Following is a report of the proceedings since our last issue: Harvey j. Dexter ditch; report filed April 18, and ten days given for filing remonstrances. Same entry in A. G.. Pancoast ditch. Same entry in R. E. Davis ditch. Rompke Sipkema ditch; Ella V. Mitchell files remonstrance. Time of commissioners extended to April 19 to file report in the Robert C. May and Charles Meadel ditches. » * Patrick Hallagan vs. George Wenner; judgment for return of property, judgment for sls for failure to return. Wm.' B. Austin vs. Harvey R. Hartman, assignee dt G. G. Garrison.; cause re-set for trial April 30. Wm. P. Gaffleld vs. James T. Morton, et al: mofion for new trial overruled, bond of S3OO approved and 90 days given to file bill of exceptions. Appeal to the < court granted. - Lizzie B. Faris vs. Lizzie B. Faris, adm.; judgment for claim of s3l lM ! In the case of Silas 11. Moore, vs. William E. Moore, wherein the. former sued the latter recently for some S4OO alleged to be due him for medical services, the defendant through his attorney, E. B. -Sellers,-, has filed an answer denying each and every material allegation of the complaint* and asks judgment for costs; that the cause sued upon was fully paid and satisfied before the filing of said'complaint; that plaintiff had been making his home in. part at the home of defendant, _ and that they had entered Into an agreemnt

whereby plaintiff was to administer medicine to defendant i"n pay ment for which he was to have certain mals at dfendant’s home; that all plaintiff ever contributed to defendant’s . table was one beef-steak of the value'of 50 cents, and no more; that lie ate 587 meals of the value of 25 cents each and that defendant loaned plaintiff $79,05, none of which has ever been repaid; also, that defendant sold plaintiff one bushel of clover seed of the value of SB, which has never been paid. Wherefore defendant demands judgment for SSO and costs..