Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1911 — MRS GREENLEE WINS OUT [ARTICLE]

MRS GREENLEE WINS OUT

In Action Brought Against Her to Collect Notes. The case of Powell vs. Greenlee was given to the jury Friday evening at about eight o’clock, and a sealed verdict returned at 3a. m. Saturday morning. The verdict was read on the re-con-vening of court Saturday morning at nine o’clock, and the general finding as well as the interrogatories submitted to the jury was in the defendant’s favor. The questions at issue in this case are familiar to the readers of The Democrat, and we will refer to them but briefly: Last fall Mrs. Eva Greenlee bargained for the purchase of the furniture and fixtures owned by Mrs. Powell, landlady of the Ndwels hotel, expecting to enter in the management of the hotel, and gave her notes for several hundred dollars therefor. Later on, when she was about to take possession of the hotel, she claimed that considerable of the property she had bought was not there or belonged to Chapman and Robinson, the owners of the building, and refused to accept any of it.

She sued for the return of her notes, but as they were not yet due the court held that the action was not properly brought, that, the proper method was to contest payment when an attempt was made to collect them, and dismissed the case. When the notes became due suit was brought for their collection, with the above result. The costs in the case will be considerable. The hotel has been locked up for the last six months, but Mrs. Powell will again take possession of same at once and conduct a rooming house, we understand.