Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Circuit Court Notes. [ARTICLE]

Circuit Court Notes.

The grand jury did not complete its labors until Saturday afternoon. They found seven indictments. 1 for illegal sale of liquor; 2 for assault and battery; 2 for petit larceny; and 2 for embezzlement. 4 The two cases of Ferdinand Kopelka, the preacher, against his sop Johannis Kopelka, the lawyer, from Crown Point, have occupied a large part of the time of the court, both last week and this. It is unfortunate, to say the least, that six or seven days of the valuable time of the court should be consumed in. settling the household difficulties of a family from another county. In the first suit, tried last week, the elder Kopelka sued his son for several hundred dollars worth of household goods <fcc., which the and his two sisters took possession of upon'the death of their mother; and which they claimed, were acquired mainly through the labors of the girls and their mother. verdict of the jury was in favor of the defendant-