Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — JUDGE SETS VERDICT ASIDE [ARTICLE]

JUDGE SETS VERDICT ASIDE

Orders Servant Girl Case Retried on Error and Excessive Judgment, Washington, Ind.. Oct. 14 -Special Judge M. S. Hastings in the circuit court set aside the verdict rendered by a jury last week in favor of Ellen Clark for $1,258.50 against James J. Kirklin for serviyes w hich he had rendered in the Kirklin home from the time she was t» years old until one year ago,

Judge Hastings ordered the case retried on the ground that an error had been made in the instructions to the jury and that the judgment was excessive. ■ : , . ■ ' ■■