Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF jSPER COUNTY OAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. *• ' Township Trustee Albert S. Keane was down from Wheatfield yesterday. Attorney and Mrs. Jasper Guy were over again from Remington yesterday getting data for abstract work. A. Halleck went to Indianapolis Monday to file the incorporation articles for the Gifford Drainage association. New suits filed: No. 8724. M. V. Brown vs. George H. Hammerton, trustee Union township*. plaint on contract. Demand $61.50.

Among those from here who went to Kentland Monday to attend the Newton circuit court were Judge Hanley, Report Michael Wagner and Attorneys Parkinson and Dunlap. The case of Sam Duvall vs. P. C. Curnick, action for damages, pending in the Newton circuit court where it was taken from this county on change of venue, is to be dismissed according to a statement by Duvall. The latter also said that he had been badly advised and had himself taken the wrong view of the matter. By this it would appear that the differences between Rev. Curnick and Duvall have been satisfactorily adjusted.

In reporting the trouble out at the Michaels sale between the Welsh boys and John Bill in Saturday’s Democrat, we said that up till noon Friday Claude Welsh had not appeared before Squire Spitler,; to answer to the charge of assault and battery filed against him. We have since learned that he came in Thursday afternoon and plead guilty to the charge and was fined and costs $12.50, Squire Spitler was out of town Friday assisting his father in clerking the Putt saJe over in west Jordan and our information came from Deputy Prosecutor Sands, who it seems, did not know at the time we talked with him that Claude "had been in. In reporting the affair The Democrat gave the facts as they were reported by different'* ones present. It now appears that while the trouble is of long standing, dating from the time John Welsh was 'expelled from school when a boy, this was not the first clash, the parties having became engaged in a mix-up at the Bert Johnson sale in west Jordan some -six or seven years ago. At tkat time, it is said, friends got in between them before any serious’ damage was done on either side. No other prosecutions have been started and it is probable that none will be; as the friends of all think it best to let the matter drop as it now stands.