Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE 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. 1 The marriage license business has been very good indeed this month, and up to.yesterday noon eleven licenses had been issued. —io— Except for an occassional tramp who is given lodgings by the city, the county jail has been free of “boarders” for the past month. —o- —■ New suits filed: No. 7792. The Connecticut Mutual Insurance Co., vs. Frank Reany, et al.; action to foreclose mortgage. Demand $2,500. —o—Marriage licenses issued: Oct. 26, Elza M. Coffel of Francesville, son of James H. Coffel, aged 21, occupation butcher, to Mae E. Hoker of Jasper county, aged 20, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

j County Superintendent W. O. Schanlaub announces that he has already engaged the instructors for the next annual county {teachers’ institute, to be held in (Kentland during the first week lin September next year, and that they are: Dr. W. D. Henderson of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Dr. O. |L. Warren, State Institute Director of New York of Elmira, N. Y.—Kentland Democrat. —o—- “ There are strong indications,” says the Pulaski County | Democrat, “that there will be 'an appeal to the supreme court on the Monon ditch. Some of the attorneys representing a ’number of remonstrators state that motions for new trials will be filed at the next term of court. In the event that these trials should be refused, it is asserted that the cases will be I carried to the upper court.” I . i - —o —• The recently appealed case of Patrick Hallagan (by administrator) vs. James W. Johnson, was stricken from the docket of the appellate court Wednesday, the court holding: i (1) The dead are incapable of >tak- ‘ ing legal action, nor can another take i legal action in their name. (2) Where i a party prayed a term time appeal and ! pending the perfecting the appeal the appellant died on July 2, and the record was not filed in this court until the 1 8th day of July, and the appeal was I filed in the name of the decedent, this court will strike the appeal from the docket, on a petition to substitute the adminisrator as appellant, though the appellee is making no congest to the substitution.

The will of the late James Matheson was filed for probate Wednesday. The instrument was written by Mr. Matheson and witnessed by E. L. Hollingsworth and J. P. Hammond. It was made Jan. 19, 1911, and after the usual provision for paying all just debts and testamentary expenses, all property of testator is bequeathed to the widow, including the SI,OOO insurance carried in the Modern Woodmen, except SSO to, testator’s daughter, Mrs. George W. Reed. The widow, Jennie Matheson, is made executrix of the will, and has filed bond in the sum of $6,000 —twice the estimated value of the estate —with E. L. Hollingsworth and Geo. A. Williams 1