Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — The Iroquois Ditch Knocked Out. [ARTICLE]

The Iroquois Ditch Knocked Out.

Judge John H. Gillett, of the LakePorter circuit, to whom was referred the hearing of the Iroquois River Ditch case, appealed from the Commissioners’ Court, came dnwn and rendered his decision in this very important case, last Saturday afternoon. The opinion is long and necessarily technical, and many authorities are cited. The purport of the decision however, is that the action of the County Commissioners, in dismissing the ditch, on the grounds that the estimated cost would exceed its probable benefits, was legal, and fully within their power. The decision also sustains the commissioners in placing upon the petitioners all the costs accrued ip to the time of dismissal. S. P. Thompson, attorney for the petitioners gave notice of intention to appeal to the Supreme Court. But how many of the petitioners besides himself will join in the appeal is not at present known. Some of , the petitioners, it is stated will prefer to -settle their share of the costs now, rather than to fight the case further, in the courts. The entire costs so far, are $3,7 45.56. The number of the financially responsible petitioners is about 30, thus making the amount of each one’s share of the costs about $l2O.