Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURTHOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— ToL gether with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday.

. E. P. Honan was in Demotic oh legal business Tuesday. The Jordan tp., road case was reversed by the appellate court a few days ago. Devere Yeoman, county surveyorelect, has resigned his position of superintending the construction of a big sewer contract at South Bend and with Mrs. Yeoman started housekeeping in the Bert Brenner property on River street. W. F. Osborne, the present county surveyor, who filed notice of contestiing Mr. Yeoman's election with the auditor, has stated that he will dismiss the contest, we are told, and it is likely this will be done when the commissioners m* a Monday.

Itenm from the cirqiit court docket: ■ ' ■ • : ■' ■■ , State cases No. 1356, 1381, 1383, 1395, 1396, 1416, 1437, and 1473 were dismissed on motion of the prosecutor. They were all old cases which have been on the docket for a long time. No. 7863. Charles W. Hickman vs. Roy Donnelly: defendant files verified motion to suppress the deposition of Win. Grundy, et as. Motion sustained. Cause continued for term at costs of plaintiff. No. 7939. Elmer and Clara Tolbert vs. Noah J. Yoader; jury trial, verdict for plaintiff in sum of $325.

Marriage licenses issued: Nov. 27, Joseph Alfred Ashby of Fulton county, aged 26, occupation farmer, to Minnie May Martini, daughter of George W. Martin of Pleasant Ridge, aged 22, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Squire Irwin in the clerk’s office.

Nov. 28, Ulysses Gant Lutes of Monon, aged 22, occujration farmer, to Minnie Rea Johnson, daughter of William Johnson of McCoysburg, aged 19, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. Married by Rev. J. P. Green at the clerk’s office.

When the Proctor liquor regulation law went into effect the city council of Gary fixed the license fee in that city at SSOO per year, the maximum amount. Later this was reduced by ordinance to $250. The matter of reducing the fee was taken into court and held to be valid, but on appeal to the appellate court the case was reversed and the SSOO iee stands, the court holding that when the fixed the fee at SSOO it exhausted its power; that the law provided how an-d when the election of fixing the fee should be made, and when once made the amount stands as established and is 1 out of reach of the council and is subject to no change except by the legislature itself.