Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1898 — SUES FOR 3 CENTS AND WINS. [ARTICLE]

SUES FOR 3 CENTS AND WINS.

Telegraph Companlea Mint l’uy War Tax Htanine. At Carthage, Mo., Judge Perkins has rendered a decision in the ease of Senator Howard Gray vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company. The claim was for 3 cents for stamps charged the pluintilY after the tirst adoption of the war tax. Ins claim being that tin* defendants were by law required to bear that burden. The decision was in favor of tin* plaintiff for the amount <lf the claim. A new trial was denied, and also a motion for arrest of judgment was overruled.