Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. ■**——; — l —• —r*—: —l Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. « ■ > Frank Foltz was in Kentland* Thursday on court, business. New suits filed : No. 7611. Roy. Willey vs. Cornelius Sayler et al; action to quiet title. The County Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting next Monday. Irwin & Irwin closed up farm loans laht month aggregating $49,600, and have many more pending. There were ten marriage licenses issued last month, against t-’even «Jor the month previous and eleven, fonjthe corresponding month last year. " , —o — This is the last week of the ’May / term of the Newton circuit court, and there will now be a vacation in the circuit until the second Monday in September, when the next term in Jasper county convenes. Nicholas Sammons an inmate of the county poor asylum, died of hardening of the arteries followed by gangrene Wednesday, aged 80 years. He formerly lived at Demotte but for the past three years had been making his home at the county farm. His brother, Simonin Sammons, took the body to Roselawn yesterday morning where burial was made. The appellate court has overruled appelant’s petition for a rehearing to modify mandate in the case of Elizur Sage vs. International Harvester Co. taken up from this county by Mr. Sage, and judgment of the lower court reversed, the particulars of which were published in The Democrat at the time. The original judgment against-Sage by the jury in the lower court for 'some S2B, will now stand, and will have the effect of sticking the Harvester Co., for the costs. The issues in the Spinney case, wherein the Board of Commissioners is seeking to recover from Charles W. Spinney former treasurer of Newton county, an alleged shortage of $4,702.21, will be made up to-morrow and the case will be called for trial Saturday provided a change of venue is not taken. As Saturday is the last day of the present term the case could not be finished, if begun, and would be continued to an adjourned session held at some time during the summer. But as every taxpayer in the county is an interested party to this suit, it would be difficult to secure an unbiased jury and the case will most probably be sent to some other county for trial.—Kentland Eenterprise. •