Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — 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 A. D Babcock of Goodland was a business visitor in the 1 city Wednesday. The petit jury”‘has been called I for the second Monday of the present term of the Jasper circuit court. s The local conscription board finished sending out all the quesitionairreg the first of the week, and registrants within the conscription age are having same filled out and returned. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, nurse at the county hospital, went to her home in Chicago Wednesday for a j few days visit with her parents. Miss Ryan is just recovering from an attack of influenza. An alleged horse stealing case from' Newton county has been brought to the Jasper circuit court on a change of venue. Philip H. Weirich is alleged to have taken a horse belonging to Jennie M. Conrad, proprietor of the Conrad ranch in north Newton.

Clerk Nichols was in Kentland yesterday as a witness, with records, in one of the Salrin cases from Walker township, which was taken to Newton county on change of venue from this county, and a change taken there from the courti T. B. Cunningham of Kentland is sitt’ng as special judge in the case, Looie’s statement that the election of Julius Huff is the first Republican township trustee in Jordan township for forty years shows how little he knows about Jasper county politics. Jordan township has had at least three Republican trustees in the past forty years—“ Jack” Yeoman, John A. McFarland and Mark Reed. What constitutes “a bonafide residence?” One of our court decisions says,, that “a man must have a habitation soittewhere; he can have but one; and therefore, in order to lose one, he must acquire another. ♦ * • One of the fixed rules on the subject is this: That a purpose to Change, unaccompanied by actual removal • * • does not constitute a change of domicil. The fact and intent must concur.”