Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — THE JURY FAILED TO AGREE [ARTICLE]

THE JURY FAILED TO AGREE

In Case of Bank of Wheatfield vs. Joseph Salrin. The case of Joseph Salrin vs. W. V. Porter and the Bank of Wheatfield vs. Salrin, have been grinding in the Newton circuit court this week, George E. Hershman of Crown Point being Mr. Salrin’s principal attorney. In the former case Mr. Salrin had sued Mr. Porter for a balance due on a stone road contract which Porter had sub-let to Salrin’s son Orvis, who had thrown up the job and the father had to complete the contract. The court here had decided that this money belonged to the elder Salfin, and Porter, to whom it had been paid

by the county as the original contractor, was perfectly walling to pay over the amount, $1,209.34, but did not want to be compelled to pay the amount twice, and the Bank of Wheatfield was trying to get this money to apply on an indebtedness of some $4,000 which Orvis Salrin owed the bank. Therefore Porter paid the money into court at Kent-, land and will let the other parties squabble over it. In the other Salrin case the Bank of Wheatfield was suing Joseph Salrin for some $4,000 which Saljin’s son awed the bank in notes of $14)00, $1,500, SBOO and S7OO, respectively, and on which the elder Salrin wah admittedly an endorser. These particular notes were taken up and merged into a note given by young Salrin, it is alleged, and on which his father’s name also appeared as surety, but which the latter denied having signed and a Jury in the Jasper .circuit court (had so decided in a lease brought by the bank against the Salrins for the collection, thereof. The present case was filed here, but taken to Newton county on change of venue and was heard be-

fore T. B. Cunningham as special judge. The jury failed to agree and the case will be tried over again. In the case of the Virginia Fertilizer Co. vs. Conrad Kellner, taken from Ja’sper county to Newton on change of venue, judgment was given plaintiff for $315. Charles Bohanan, the young cripple from Lexington, Kentucky, who was charged with robbery and beating up of James Hyer of west of Fair Oaks and had lain in jail here as a prisoner of Newton county, mention of which was made In Wednesday’s Democrat, was found guilty and sentenced to the reI formatory.