Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — THE CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUIT COURT.

. ~-Tke.case cLlessie Ilutlce .va.. Abdn MdCurtain, for breach of promise and seduction, was tried Monday,before the court. The plaintiff was was given damages of SIOOO and costs. The plaintiff now lives in Miami Go. and the defendant in Barkley Tp. He is a young man, only about 21 years old. The case of Judson J. Hunt, County Recorder, vs. the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Co., was argued Monday, before Judge Wiley. Mfi Hunt asked the commissioners to return to him some SIOOO paid by Hunt idto the county treasury, under, protest, under the fee and salary law Of 1891, before said law was declared invalid by the Supreme Court. The Commissioners decided they had no authority to refund the money, and Hunt appealed to the circuit court. The case was argued at great length by S. P: Thompson for Mr. Hunt, and by R. W. Marshall and Daniel Frazer, for the commissioners. Judge Wiley said he preferred if both parties were willing, to reserve his decision until the result could be known of certain actions now before the Supreme Court looking to the possible re-instatement of the legality of the law of 1891. The jury was discharged Wednesday forenoon, for the term. They did not try a single case.