Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — Echo of Two Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Echo of Two Years Ago.

Yesterday at the office of Stuart, Hammond & Simms, the statement under oath of Dan W. Simms was taken to be used in the case wherein the bank of West Lebanon is suing Joseph Been and Hezekiah Robinson prominent citizens of Burrows, Carroll county, to collect notes which they gave for stock in the defunct Columbia Casualty Company. The Been note is for $5,000, and the Robinson note for $2,000. The question raised by the men who gave the notes was the right of M. G. Traugh to dispose of them, Traugh having endorsed them and sold them? to the bank at West Labanon. At the time the notes were given Mr. Simms was president of the company which had luxurious'offices on Columbia street in this city and at Indianapolis. Judge Joseph Rabb, of Logansport, represents Been and Robinson, and he conducted the examination of Mr. Simms yesterday. The Columbia Casualty Company failed two years ago and some of the officers and stock salesmen are under arrest at Indianapolis.—-La-fayette Sunday Record.