Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — REOPEN STREIGHT CASE. [ARTICLE]

REOPEN STREIGHT CASE.

Attorneys Prepare Motion for New Trial of Will Contest. Shelbyville, Ind., May 17. Attorneys Michael Ryan, Henry Warrum and Ira Holmes of Indianapolis, who represented the defendants in the case of Sophia D. Hughes and others against William X. Thompson and 1 homas L. Thompson, executors of the will of Lpvina Streight, and others, w ere hr the city yesterday, taking the preliminary steps to filing their motion for a new trial. The case was tried here at the last term of the Shelby circuit court, and after the Jury had been out twenty-two hours it brought in a verdict which broke the will of Mrs. Lovina Streight, who had property valued at $130,000 at the time of her death. According to the terms of her will, $4,500 w-as left to two of her relatives and the remainder went for the establishing pf a hprne for old and dependent people. The matter will be taken up at the next term of court, which begins one week from next Mondy.