Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — JONES COUNTY CALF CASE. [ARTICLE]

JONES COUNTY CALF CASE.

Final Decision tn a Dispute That Has Lasted Twenty Years and Cost 520.000 The lowa Supreme Court has finally a"flrmed the decision of the lower court in the celebrated case of Johnson vs. Miller etal., better known as the “Jones County calf case.” The verdict of the lower court was for the plaintiff in the sum of <I,OOO. The case has been in the courts for about twenty years. It has bankrupted everybody connected with it except the attorneys. The total cost of the case has grown to between 115,000 and <20,000. The calves were worth |ls. Jeffersonville boasts of a most philanthropic crank. His name is Jack Baber, and, though poor, he whitewashed every telegraph, telephone and electric lightpole last year at his own expense. Now he proposes to build board sidewalks where-ev-Vr it is muddy and has already begun the work. _____________ Oa His Last Mrs. Talloan Hydo observes with horror that her new coachman just floated over, has on u pair of overalls. she says, “those overalls don't look very etylish; you’d 1 better take them off.” “Yes, me lady,’’ says Hodge Fotherinjham. “but Ah*vc nowst else annernealh'em, me lady.' They drive on. —Brooklyn Eagle.