Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — Ketman Ditch Lawyers Paid Big Fee [ARTICLE]

Ketman Ditch Lawyers Paid Big Fee

Attorney Oscar B. Smith of Knox and J. M. Spangler and Caleb Barker of Winamac, have been allowed a fee of 224,000 in the noted Tony L. Ketman ditch. The amount of the fee was determined upon Friday at Winamac when Special Judge Sties, who had established the work, heard evidence upon the subject. Attorneys were placed upon the stand and asked what the* fee should be in them placed it aq high as *35,900. Tl* case was begun seven years # ago

and has been vigorously contested in the Pulaski and upper courts ever since. Smith A Spangler carried the contest on for the greater part of the time but Anally Mr. Barker became associated with them. It is understood the fee will be split up forty per cent each for Smith and Spangler and twenty per cent for Barker. It is one of the largest fees ever allowed in a single case in this circuit, and the case was one of the longest and hardest fought of any in either coanty.—Starke County Republican.