Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1889 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

Judge Ward closed court until the March term, Saturday morning, in time to take the 11 a. in. train, for Kentland. Clinton Garard, the young fellow charged with voting under age, in Alarion tp., last fall, was also indicted for perjurj r in swearing his vote in. He is now in jail in default of S2OO bail in the voting case and for S3OO ou the perjury charge. Carl Hoops, of Remington, plead guilty to selling liquor without license and was fined S2O and costs. Two other cases against him stand over until the Alarcli term. The old case of Mrs. Carrie Pearcy now Airs. Naugle, vs. the Alichigan Mutual Life Insurance Company was to have come up for a new trial, ltfet week, and the witnesses were present in large numbers, but the plaintiff got sick at the last moment and the case was continued to the March term. The case which originally came from Benton county, on change of venue, was tried here several years ago, but was reversed in the Supreme court and sent back for a retrial. The case of John 11. Smith versus N. Gotzky, for damages for slander) was dismissed at plaintiff’s cost The defendant skipped the country before service could be had upon him. In the case of N. Warner for the use of Bedford vs. F. AY. Bedford and others, judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $3574,60 and foreclosure. The case of Jesse B. AlcKinney vs. Elias Lehman, was from Benton county, on change of venue. Lehman is a Jewish junk buyer who traverses the rural districts of Benton county. One Brow or Brough sold him a horse and received therefor Lehman’s note. The note was sold to the plaintiff AlcKinney. The horse was warranted not to have the heaves but turned out to be worthless in other respects, and to have been painted up and its teeth filed, for the purpose of trading. The court found judgment against Lehman for $lO5 on the note, $25 attorney’s fees and half the costs of the suit, which have grown to the sum of about S4OO. He found judgment against AlcKinney for one half the costs, or about S2OO and denied his application for an attachment against the property of Lehman, which is already mortgaged 'to other parties. In the case of J. M. Hodshire vs. R. AV. Alarshall and others, mechanic’s lera, judgment was given in favor of Hodshire against defendants Chamberlain & Zoll for $55.30, and attorney fees and costs. This case is of much interest to masons and carj)enters. It grew out of a disagreement as to the manner of computing the perches of stone work in foundation piers. Hodshire figured the piers at double their actual contents, which the defendants disputed his right to do. The decision of the court was an affirmation of the correctness of Hodshire’s method of figuring! AVm. Ross got judgment of S6B against Percy Taylor, on a suit on account. * • In Winfield N, Pence vs. Sidney J. and Vesta G. Pence, a decree of partition was issued and one third of the land ordered set off to the plaintiff. ' The case of David Nowels vs. Jas. 11. Hyland, for a receiver for the

Nowels House, was contained until the Marcji term. 1 The main shit for the possession of the hotel will also* be tried at that term. Two ditches, the Davisson, No. 56, in Union tp., and the Crawford No. 61, in Keener, were ordered constructed, Thrawls commissioner » both cases. In Ditch Causes No. 58, the Thomas J. Ervin; 59, the Ghas. Yohn; 60, the Seth B. Moffitt, remonstrances were filed and the cases continued to the March term.