Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

CIRCUIT COURT.

The Circuit Court was in session Monday and .Tuesday, and adjourned Tuesday afternoon until next Monday, upon which day the pettit jury will be present. The now celebrated slander suit of Margaret Gray vs John W. Sage was under consideration of the court for some time Tuesday afternoon. The defendant, Sage, by his attorneys, John T. Brown and M. F. Chilcote, filed a motion asking that the plaintiff be required to make her complaint more spacific I! The court held

that the com plaint was sufficient, and overruled the motion. The case is set for trial on Friday Of next week. The defendant is ruled to file their answer to the complaint next Monday. Their answer will be. in three paragraphs and plead, first, a general genial; second, justification;* third, mitigation. S. P. Thompson is attorney for the plaintiff. The docket is very light, this term.