Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From till Various Departments ♦ OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized —Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorneys William Darroch and T. B. Cunningham of Kentland were here on court business Thursday and yesterday. Special Judge' Elmore Barce of Fowler, accompanied by Attorney A. D. Babcock of Goodland, came over via Ford Thursday to look aifter some motions that had been made by attorneys in the Ryan and Oliver ditches. The motions were overruled and an appeal taken by the remonstrators. The jury in the case of Joseph D. Law vs the New York Central railroad company, growing out of the terrible accident north of Morocco last August when three people were killed at a crossing near Enos in attempting to cross the railroad in their automobile, resulted in a verdict for the defendant in the Benton circuit court after the jury had been out eight hours. There are three other actions pending against the railroad company Kor damages growing out of this same accident, two of which are in the Jasper circuit court, having been brought here from Newton county on change of venue. Newton circuit court items of interest to Jasper county readers, taken from the Kentland Democrat as follows: Loretta McKee vs. Mark A. Hoag, for breach of promise, verdict for defendant; plaintiff filed motion for new trial. Jacob Ochs v s William Zimmerman, for slander; exceptions to judgment on verdict overruled; appeal taken to appellate court. O. Byron Blackburn vs. Ed Oliver, judgment for $12,065.29. Edwin E. Smith vs. Ed Oliver, judgment for $12,001.73. William E. Bell vs. Ed Oliver, judgment for $12,001.73. Taylor-Critchfield-Clague Co. vs. John A. Dunlap et al, continued for term. James M. Yeoman vs. Everett Halstead et al, judgment for sl,164.33. Attorney John Greve was down from Demotte on business Wednesday and dropped in at The Democrat office to replenish his stock of legal blanks. While Mr. Greve was born in Europe, in a section of territory that was then in Denmark but later became a part of the German Empire, he came to this country with his people in 1865 and his father took out his naturalization papers in 1869, before John was of age, but the latter, not knowing that his father had taken out naturalization papers, took out papers himself in Lake county in 1884, and he says that despite his foreign blood he is as loyal to the United States as any native born American citizen can be, and would be willing to shed every drop of his blood in the cause in which the United States is now at war. And while John is 68 years of age he could whip a half a segre of Germans yet if given half a chance.

The local examining board resumed the examination of conscripted registrants Wednesday and completed the work Thursday except for some whose claims for exemption had not been returned from the district board at Laporte. The following are the names of those examined and all were placed in class 1, which means certified for military service, except where otherwise noted. Several of those whose names appear in the list are registrants who were recalled under the new regulations: Ralph D. Wooden, John H. Nagel, James N. Woods, Harold A. Callender (disqualified), Walter L. Nagel, Junior Benjamin (disqualified), Platte Spade, William R. Gorter, Fred L. James, Sylvanus J. Marquie, Davis Htenry Phelps, Henry Frey, George C. Mellender, Samuel H. Baxter (disqualified), Edward A. Goepp, Victor E. Michael, Orlan G. Snodgrass (disqualified), John W. Karch, Tom J. McGlinn, William H. McKinney, Oscar J. Turner, George J. Stalbaum, Henry Bunning, John

Torberg, Frank Fritz, Watson Terpstra. Charles C. Cooper, Freddie J. Lange, Gerald Edson Murray (cert, for lim. service.), John I. Reed (cert, for lim. ser.), Albert J. Kerns, Vincent Quinn. Herbert C. Hammond, Ernest E. Linback, Leo Ross Myers, Elijah Cunningham, John W. Misch, Harry W. Cochran (cert, for lim. ser.), Ferdinand Bachman. Robert Kiersma, George William Bernhardt, Charles Boes, Harvey Austin, Victor A. Sigo, Charles Klaus, Carl Bowman, Max J. Schultz. Charles C. Wood (disqualified), Bernard J. . Nagel, Clarence V. Sayers. Jacob Tnt Veit, Floyd Meyers, Ernest Garriott, Albert Van Weinen. Michael J. Wagner, Ernest Ray Parks (cert, for lim. ser.), Louis A- Miller, William Alfring (eert. for lim. ser.), John A. Switzer, Homer Fisher, Elmer Milton (disqualified), Harvey E. Roadifer, Charles H. Britton. Rugsell K. Timmons (transferred for exam, to Bastrop, La., and passed there), Carl J. Worden. Alonzo D. Norris, Clifford C. Hamilton; Charles S. Woosley, Leo R. Zellers, Lloyd S. Parks, Don Sutton, Alfred E. Murray, Otto J. Makus, Melvin ,H. Burns, Ray E. Flores.