Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — The Circuit Court. [ARTICLE]

The Circuit Court.

The pettit jury was dismissed for the term last Friday, after five days' attendance, and the trial of only three or four cases. Court adjourned Saturday until Thursday of this week Judge Wiley of this circuit and Judge Lairy, of Cass, exchanged benches during the most of last week. The case of Jas. D. Babcock vs Joseph Putts Sr., tried last term and held under aivisement, was decided in favor of plaintiff. The suit was brought, by the plaintiff to compel the defendant to carry out a contract for the sale of a farm to plaintiff. After decision in plaintiff’s favor, the defendant asked for a new trial; which was granted, and the case was continued to the October term. The case of John Graves and Wm. McNeil vs Wm. Hoile, for S6OO agent’s commission for sale ofdefendant’s farm, was tried by jury. They brought in a special verdjet, upon the findings of which the court entered a verdict for the defend ant The latter has filed motion for a new trial. This case is the same which * was on trial last winter, when it came to a sudden end, by a charge of attempted jury bribing. But of which charge the accused party w’as acquitted in the March term. Another Jury trial was the case of Wm. Haley, from a few miles south of town, against Isaac Senesac and others on a note. Senesac was a former tenant of Haley’s farm and he plead various offsets against Haley’s claim, and the jury found in Senesac’s favor, and gave him damages also, to the amount of S4O. The oldest and most venerable case on the ciVil docket, that of Loughry Bros, vs Hurley, was at last disposed of. It was a suit on a note, and the plantiff is given judgement for $238.00. It has been on the docket since July 29, 1888, Millard G. Prevo, a 6 year old boy, adopted by his uncle (xeorge D. Prevo, a Medaryville druggist. The Little fellows parents bo th died m his infancy, and he has been raised by his mother’s silster Mrs. Edwin E. Faris, of Gillam Tp. She is very much attached to him, as much in fact as though he was her own child, and is very much averse to giving him up, and she and her husband are able to give him a good home, as is also his uncle, Mr . Prevo, who has formally adopted him through the court. It is not unlikely that further proceedings in the courts will be resorted to before the custody of the little orphan is finally settled.