Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — MONON DITCH AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

MONON DITCH AGAIN.

Long-Pending Litigation Affecting Northern Jasper Again On the Boards. The Monon ditch case will be taken'up on Monday, June 5, before special Judge Henry A. Steis. Mr. Steis had been named as special judge by Judge Vurpillat, but last week resigned the position. Judge Vurpillat then reported to Governor Marshall that no person could be found to t y the case and the governor then re-appointed Mr. Steis as the judge at a salary of $lO per day,

the amount being twice the sum which Mr. Steis had been receiving while acting as an appointee of Judge Vurpillat. The principal reason why the case has never been tried to a finish is because the pay of the special judge has been too small to warrant him leaving his own business long enough to try the case, and now that the pay has been placed at $lO per day, it will be sufficient to compensate Mr. Steis for the time spent here. Nye & Nye, attorneys for the remonstrants, state that they have 230 remonstrances which they propose to have tried separately even though it take ten years to do so, and at the rate which the remonstrances were disposed of at the last trial, two a week, it will take at least -two years to settle the matter, if the attorneys are successful in having their lemonstrances all tried.—Winamac Journal.