Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About County Capitol. Trustee Shirer of Kankakee township, was down on business Wednesdav. - V OI— New suits filed: No. 7617. 43eorge L. Johrison vs. Oscar Byerly, et al; appeal from Squire M. P. Comer’s court. —o — The County Council is called to meet in special *sesion Tuesday, July 5, principally for the purpose of appropriating funds for new bridges. Fred Brown of Goodland, who was a star boarder at Sheriff Shiner’s hotel for several months as the guest of Newton county, charged with stealing a horse at Kentland last fall, of which charge he was acquitted at trial, was married at Monticello Wednesday to Miss Dollie Dobbins of Wolcott. —o White county republicans nominated the following county ticket Thursday: Clerk, Charles S. Preston; treasurer, Wm. P. Cooper; recorder, Morton Coonrod; surveyor, Frederick Price; assessor, Wm. F. Snyder; coroner, Geo. R. Clayton, Jr.; commissioners, Chas. A. Gay, Jacob D. Moore. —o— W. D. Bringle of Jordan tp., has purchased the undivided 3-5 interest of Mirs. Myrtle Yeoman of Hibbard, Ind., J. V. Bringle of Summit, So. Dak., and Mrs. S. B. Moffitt also of South Dakota, in' the 83-acre farm in Newton tp., owned by his father, W. L. Bringle, deceased. The consideration as stated in the deed is $3,900. <

Squire Irwin was called upon Thursday afternoon to officiate at the Clerk’s office, in the marriage of Fred G. Vincent of Harvey, 111., to Miss Susanna K. Homerding of Green’s Grove, 111.,' a couple who were granted a license here Tuesday, but are understood to have experienced a little difficulty in getting a minister to marry them because the groom had been divorced from his former wife. They left on the afternoon train for Chicago on their way back home. licenses issued: June pl, Charles Edward Lewis, of Orons, Maine, son of Isaac R. Lewis of Jasper county, aged 34, occupation plant pathologist, to Clifford Neff Moody, daughter of Granville Moody of Barkley tp., aged 30, occupation housekeeper. First marriage'for each. June 22, Samuel F. -Wolfinger of Marion county, Ohio, aged 32, occupation farmer, to Harriet May Sayler, daughter of Benjamin L. Sayler of Rensselaer, aged 30, occupation teacher. First marriage for each. —o — One Robert M. Allen, an insane njan, was taken in charge by Sheriff ' Shirer Wednesday morning on complaint of parties south of town, at whose home the man had appeared and frightened the women, in the absence of the men folks. The man is said to have made his home for some tffnelit Fowler but recently disappeared and his whereabouts had since been unknown to his friends. Thursday morning the man’s cousin from Brook, accompanied by the town marshal of that place, him back with them'and an insanity hearing will be there.

The case of Harry C. Willette, administrator, vs. Benjamin J. Gifford, et al. Appealed from the Jasper Circuit Court, was reversed in the Appellate court Tuesday. The court held: (1) Where a mortgage was executed in 1881, to indemnify the mortgagee against loss under a certain contract, and six years later, in an action on the contract begun soon after the said mortgage was given, a court of Ohio that had jurisdiction of the parties adjudged that $14,394 was due the mortgagee thereon, and such judgment was renewed and kept .alive by a subsequent judgment of the Marion superior court in an action thereon, recovered in December, 1890, the'statute of limitations did not bar* a suit to foreclose the

mortgage at the expiration of twenty years after its execution, (See Acts 1909. Page 334.) (2). A mortgage lien is kept alive as long as the debt it secures is alive (except as terminated ,by Act? 1909, Page 334, enacted after this suit was brought.) (3) The mortgager or his graftnee can not acquire a tax title that he can set up against his mortgagee, because he is bound to keep the taxes paid.