Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL ————— w* Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered by Us From the Various County Offices. An affidavit was filed Monday by Deputy Prosecutor Sands, charging Francis E. Goff of Fair Oaks with harboring a dog on which the tax had not been paid, and the case will come up in the circuit court later for hearing. Marriage licenses Issued: Sept. IJS, Walter Merrull Miller of Monon, ag4d 19 June 10 last, lineman, and Beulah Avis Trump of Fair Oaks, aged 18 Sept. 26 last, clerk. First marriage for each. Male being under age his father, Morrous Miller, gave consent to issuance of license. Married by Squire Irwin. Attorney-General Stansbury has given out an opinion that world w%r soldiers and sailors have the privilege of hunting and fishing in Indiana without taking out licenses, in accordance with the .1919 law granting them rights already granted to soldiers of previous wars, and that there is nothing in the law that requires them to carry papers showing that they are such and that proof of their being soldiers is another matter and not within, the scope of the fish and game commissioner. Fish and game laws are held in the opinion to apply to soldiers and sailors as to others in each instance except that they im ay hunt and fish without having to take out licenses. __ New suits filed: < Ed Oliver vS. Jasper County Farms Co.; action for restraining order.

The complaint alleges that about Jan. 1, 1919, defendants obtained record title to certain real estate In Jasper county (at Newland) and also possession of personal property owned by plaintiff; that on or about Sept. 1, 1919, action was filed by plaintiff to recover title and possession of said real estate and personal property and that an ancilllary action has been filed in the form of an application for a receiver to take charge of all of said property pending the action to recover same, alleging in said application that the property is being dissipated, wasted and greatly mismanaged; that the day fixed for hearing said application for receiver Is Sept. 19, 1919; that defendant has sold a part of the personal property at a great sacrifice and is threatening and endeavoring to wrongfully and unlawfully sell and dispose of more of said personal property a great amount at an enormous sacrifice to plaintiff’s irreparable damage, etc., wherefore plaintiff asks for a restraining order, etc. No. 9909. Frank E. McElheny vs. Myrtle McElheny; action for divorce. Complaint alleges that the parties were married July 31, 1917, and liveii together as husband and wife until Sept. 6, 1919. Cruel and Inhuman treatment, cursing and abusing plaintiff without cause, failure of and refusal to -perform her household duties, leaving plaintiff without cause, etc,, and that their entire married life has been very unpleasant, defendant continually quarreling with plaintiff without any provocation, is charged. - They have no children.