Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Eighteen took examination before Co. Supt. Lamson Saturday. —<o— Beaver tp., Newton county, in which is located the town of Morocco, will vote next Saturday on the local option question. Judge Hanley spent Sunday here with his family, returning to Valparaiso to take up the grind of the Gary “election riot” cases Monday. Trustee Charles V. May of Carpenter, and J. .A. Washburn and J. J. Porter of Remington were in the city yesterday on business. —p— Deputy Clerk, Miss Vera Parker, will take a vacation next week, which she will spend with her sister, Mrs. Wallace Parkison, at Brook. I —o— Sheriff Hoover sold the Chester G. Thompson farm of 600 acres in Milroy tp., at sheriff’s sale Saturday to F. L. Smith, the mortgagee, the consideration being $21,000. —o — Marriage licenses issued: June 24", Curtis Berkley Brunsdon of Chicago, aged 23, occupation machinist, to Ina Watson Shesler, daughter of Wm. R. Shesler, of Rensselaer, aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

.—O'Charles Marlin was arraigned before Squire Irwin Friday for drunkenness and. disorderly conduct on the evening of June 10, and was fined $5 and costs, $9.10 in all. He was sent to jail, but paid out Saturday night and was released. —o— Squire Bruner fined Mrs. Frank Shide $1 and costs for assault and battery upon the person of “Daddy” Mabb last Sunday, it being alleged that she “sloughed” him' over the head with a poker, putting him to the bad immediately. —-o Thomas Davis, a wealthy farmer of near Kniman, was hailed before his honor, Mayor Meyers, Saturday afternoon and assessed $5 and trimmings, $10.60 in all, for public intoxication. He expressed the intention of laying out the amount in jail, but about nine o’clock that night he thought perhaps he had better go home, and pulled out a well filled wallet and gave the sheriff the and was released from jail. —o —

During the past week Special Judge H. A. Steis has been making daily observations of Cass and White Post township land to determine proper assessment of lands in the Monon ditch plans. Judge Steis said this morning that he had not determined when he' would make public Jais findings being taken during the present special term. - Monon township, whose .remonstrance was to have been tried this week asked that its case be dismissed. The Schleman and Fox remonstrances also scheduled for this week were continued because of sickness of necessary parties to the cases.—'Winamac Republican.

The appellate court a few days ago affirmed the case of Wm. L. Wood vs. Everett Halstead, et al. appealed from the Newton circuit court, holding: (1) It is not error for the court of its own motion to submit interrogatories to the jury requiring answers relative to specific facts. The act of 18,97 re-enacted that part of

the former law which had been construed by the court as authorizing the court to submit interrogatories on its own motion. (2) A note made and dated at Mt. Ayr, Ind., and made payable “at the bank of Mt. Ayr,” will be construed to be payable “in a bank of this state,” and subject to the law .merchant when sued upon by a bona fide holder for value before maturity. "At” means “in,” and the bank will be presumed to be of the town where executed. (3) It was not error for the trial court to assume facts to be true which were testified to in a clears manner by plaintiff and entirely uncontradicted.