Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1918 — COURT NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COURT NEWS

The jury in the case of Henry Haag vs. Judson J. Hunt, administrator of the estate of Joseph I. Adams, brought in a verdict about 4 o’clock Friday afternoon after having been out some five or six hours. Haag was given a judgment for $1,300, or about S6BO less than he had sued for. The interrogatories submitted to the jury and returned with the verdict are said to be out of harmony with the general finding, and it is understood that the court will be asked to set aside the verdict or grant a new trial because of this. Mr? and Mrs. John Kolhoff of Jordan township have legally adopted the litttle 3-year-old nephew of the latter, Marvin Joseph Sigo whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sigo, both died within the past year.

Judge Wason was over from Delphi Friday and entered an order establishing the Claude May ditch in Carpenter township, and then resigned jurisdiction, as -he is retiring from the bench. The jury came in again Monday, but the case of Flora J. Poole vs. W. C. Babcock et al, which was set for trial was continued on account of the"illness of one of the principal witnesses, and it was excused again until Saturday forenoon, when it is expected that a railroad case will be taken up. In the case of Sternberg vs. Larsh the court has not yet rendered a decision. This is a rather peculiiar case, and as The Democrat gets it, it is something like this: Ed Sternberg of Chicago, one of the heirs of Charles H. Sternberg, deceased, who owned the former John Eger farm miles south of town on the Remington road, had given A. S. Laßue a written contract to sell said farm at $125 an acre and all over and above that figure Laßue was to receive. If he could only get $125 per acre for it he was to receive $2 per acre commission. Laßue and Walter Porter sold the farm to J. A. Larsh for $135 per

’acre, making them a net profit of 1 $1,600. Sternberg had written 1 the First National bank to accept | Larsh’s contract and .SSOO initial I payment, which was done, and Larsh sowed 4 0 acres of wheat on the farm, when the Sternbergs protested and begun action to quiet the title. It seems a written contract had also been given C. J. Dean to sell the farm, and Dean ‘sold it to George A. Williams—i price not made public—and Williams had also paid some money ■ down on the deal. While no j record had been made up to yes- ' terday morning in the case, it is 1 said the court had intimated that his finding would be for the Sternbergs; that the alleged power-of-attorpey given the bank had not been recorded, and tne contracts I of sale had not been acknowledged before any qualified or notary public. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gallager have adopted Grace Athelia Shock, the little 10-year-old girl who has made her home with them for the past twp years. _ /