Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1888 — THE GIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE GIRCUIT COURT.

STATE CASES Elias Brocus, the youug fellow’ of Fair Oaks who cut young Clubqens, several months ago, was tried by a jury Saturday. Their verdict was a fine of one dollar and costs and 30 days in the county jail. The lightness of the verdict is explained by the fact that the evidence showed, that Clemens was largely the aggressor in the row that led to the slashing. John H. Gilmore was brought up charged with provoke, in the episode where Slugger Harding gave the said Gilmore the battered nose. His fine and conts amounted to $11.60 and John is boarding it out in the county jail. John Hall, the young imbecile of Jordan tp., who stole the S2O, plead guilty to petit larceny and was sentenced by the court to a fine of 1 cent, to five minutes in the county jail and disfranchised for 30 days. Two old indictments against Wm. Helael, one for selling liquor to a drunken person and one lw sailing on Sunday, were dismjwMra; the witnesses having left tl^&fato. CIVIL CAUSES, rAW The euit of of Remington, againstLM Cl, St. Lsfc P. R. R. Ci.. fotkUHmnges sustained by the bur|®g over of his meadow, s*-t bydßarks from a locomotive waaJßSgq. by a jury 7, who brought fii|pf|secial vgnaict, half as president’s boomerang message. The plain-.' ipraroes to title were isin the cases of Bernice, E. vs N. Z. Tracy et al; and David W v Shields vs Robert L, Walpoley al. Jacjsebn Marlow’s suit on aocouiit against Abraham Pruitt was diffipssed by argreement, at defendant’s cost. " The oldest case on the docket, that of Abner H. Bowen vs. Wm. IJ. Lingle, suit to fprplose an<Jr -wm-dlsTgff case has been on the docket since 1879, and the papers concerning it were lost, years ago. -Tn the case of Aaron >S.. Stern vs Sidney Lauer et al, the cqinmissioner reports sale of>land4o D. J. Thompson for $430, anej/ihe case is dismissed. A Caroline D, Martin vs. Robert L. Martin et al, petition for partition and, sale of real-estate, is dropped from the docket until reinstated! at request of plaintiff. Decrees to quiet title were gfa.iffecl plaintiffs in James F. Maspn vs John F. Richards et al; and Miranda J. Collins vs. Jas. R. Sobers. The case of Fred Rroeger vs. C. k I. G. Ily., appeal from justice’s court, was dismissed. Fifteen new cases have been begtm - einoa the first day- of the ' present term. The number of the last case is 3785.