Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — Rensselaer Mulcted for 8800. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Mulcted for 8800.

The trial of the disc of Mrs. Mary Dexter, wife of George.J. Dexter, now of Lafayette, against the town of Rensselaer, for damages resulting from personal injuries, from stepping in a hole in a side-walk, was tried last week at Kentland, where it had been sent on change of venue. Mis. Dexter sued for $3,000 and the jury gave her SBOO. The jury were all in favor of giving the plaintiff a verdict, but they varied pretty widely, at first, as to the On the first ballot four jurors favored giving the plaintiff the full amount of her claim, $3,000. The others varied from very small sums up to near the $3,000 mark. The verdict probably represents about the average amount. The case went to the jury Friday afternoon, and they agreed on a verdict early Saturday morning.