Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Shafer Ditch Case Decided. [ARTICLE]

Shafer Ditch Case Decided.

The Supreme Court has just rendered its final decision in the much litigated Wilson Shafer ditch case, of Newton tp. The decision is in Mr. Shafer’s favor, affirming . the commissioners’ and circuit' court's action in establishing the ditch. Mr. Shafer also gets $22 20 in damages from the remonstrants. * They are James, Joseph and Rob- . ert Yeoman, M. B. and O. O. Halstead, A. J. Freeland and Sarah E. Miller. The costs will be thrown upon them and will amount to about SSOO, it is stated.