Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — Attorney Frank M. Ross Sues for Lot of Money. [ARTICLE]

Attorney Frank M. Ross Sues for Lot of Money.

Charging that he was slandered and libeled when he temporarily disappeared from East Chicago recently, with an unpaid bill for an auto mobile. Attorney Frank M. Ross filed a series of five suits in the Superior court in Hammond one day last week, against parties who gave circulation to the stories about him during his absence. After an absence of a few days Ross returned to East Chicago, where he immediately made good for a check that had been protested because of lack of funds in the bank upon which it had been issued; began to nail, as absolutely false, the sensational stories that had been circulated about him, and finally filed his five suits for damages. Two of these actions are against his former law partner, Joseph Meade, of East Chicago—one being for $5,000 for slander and the other for $1,500 as an amount due him in an agreement for his withdrawal from their partnership. Two of the suits are against J. H. Lewis, member' of an auto garage firm in East Chicago —one for $5,000 for slander and the other for SSOO for failure to complete a contract, and the fifth suit is against the Lake County Times,' at Hammond, for $5,000, for its publication of an alleged libelous report of his departure from East Chicago.—Kentland Democrat.