Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1915 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorney George E. Hershman of Crown Point, was in the city Satur- • day.

County Road Supt. Sylvester Gray was in Kankakee, 111., on business Friday. County Treasurer Fell and wife and J. D. Allman and wife attended the funeral of Mrs. Sam Bowman at Remington Sunday afternoon. Remember that next Monday is the last day for paying the fall installment of taxes to avoid delinquency and having penalty added. Attorney W. H. Parkison has been ill for the past ten days with rheumatism in his feet, and since Sunday has been confined to his bed. An architect from Chicago Heights, 111., was here yesterday submitting plans for the proposed Jasper county hospital. As but $lO,000 was appropriated for the building and ground, all agree that it is difficult to get much a hospital for this amount.

F. R. Erwin of Fair Oaks, was a business visitor in Rensselaer Monday afternoon. He stated to The Democrat that the report that he had bid off the upper end of the Boyle ditch for J. J. Lawler was without any foundation whatever. He had never hid any conversation of any kind with Mr. Lawler regarding the matter; he bid it off for himself and expects to do the work.

New suits filed: No. 8501. Jesse C. and John I. Gwin vs. Mary S. Grieser and Albert E. Brand; suit to foreclose mechanic’s lien. Demand SIOO. No. 8502. Grant-Warner Lumber Co. vs. Itolla Gates et al; foreclosure of mechanic’s lien. Demand $l5O. No. 8503. Isaac Kight vs. John Roorda; complaint on account. Demand $125. NO. 8504. David M. Worland vs. Ed Oliver; suit on account. Demand $122.50.

Superintendent of construction DeVere Yeoman sold the Boyle ditch Friday afternoon. The upper end or section I, and the Moffitt ditch and all laterals to outlet or junction of the Otis and Moffitt ditches, was sold to Joseph Marbaugh, of Marbaugh Bros., of Monteray, Ind., at 5.82 cents per cubic yard, at a total of $19,881.99. The lower half of the main ditch and the Kight lateral was sold to F. R. Erwin of Fair Oaks, at 8% cents per cubic yard, a total of $17,085.78. There wehe twenty-two bidders work.

Attorneys Dunlap of this city, and Milt Graves of Morocco, got a $2,000 verdict in a personal damage case in the Newton circuit court Saturday. The case was that of Margaret Cheever vs. Joseph M. Chisum of Morocco. Mrs. Cheever in going up town one evening after dark had stumbled over some posts left on the sidewalk by Chizum, who was rebuilding the fence in front of his home, and fell into a Irrge post-hole, causing permanent injury, it was alleged. She sued for SIO,OOO. The case was tried Wednesday and Thursday and the argument of the attorneys was fnade Saturday. Messrs. Dunlap and Graves were confronted by quite an array of legal talent, including E. B. Sellers of Monticello, and it was quite a victory in securing this judgment under such conditions.