Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Couldn’t Bluff Mr. Herr. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Bluff Mr. Herr.

b’ J. Gifford run against one man a few days ago who wouldn’t bluff, and as a consequence he must pay $1,560 for land that it is reported he had been offered at S4OO. Some 14 years ago Gifford made an agreement with A. McCoy whereby the latter was to grant him free right-of-way over his Hanging Grove tp. lands -for the former’s railroad. Since then the McCoys failed, the land has changed hands several times and is now owned by John Herr. \ Gifford recently started to tear up ground on his road on south and refused to quit when ordered by Herr to do so, assserting that his old agreement with McCoy was still good, notwithstanding its having lain dormant all this time and not a thing done at any time to continue the road on south. Mr. Herr had Gifford’s men arrested and haled before Squire Bussell Monday afternoon on the charge of trespass, and a compromise was finally effected by which Gifford

agreed to pay Herr $1,560, or $65 per acre for the 24 acres of land the right-of-way will take from Mr. Herr. It is reported that others whom be bad succeeded in temporarily bluffing, will now ask for damages, including R. L. Bussell, whose five acre tract at McCoysburg is cut in two by the proposed road.