Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1900 — Another Sensational Suit. [ARTICLE]

Another Sensational Suit.

Another case has'just been filed in the circuit court which will be watched with a great deal of interest. John Curry is the plaintiff and Theordore F. Clark as superintendent of the poor farm, and the county commissioners, in their official capacities are defendants, and Charles Robinson and T. F. Clark, personally. Curry, it will be remembered, was the elderly ditcher who was ( found sick, in September, and be-! ing physically helpless at the time, and presumably financially : so, was taken to the poor farm, ■ He was kept there five weeks, and i then discharged. He was treated ■ through his sickness by Dr. S. C. 1 Johnson, the contract physician of the poor farm, and nursed by members of the superintendent’s family. A certificate of deposit for $1,200, in McCoy & Company’s bank, was found on his person, and he was therefore charged for his doctor’s services, and for his board and nursing.

He also makes the claim in his complaint, that he had money on his person, when taken to the asylum, to the amount of $558.47, and which was never returned nor accounted for. It is not stated in the complaint who is supposed to have taken possession of this alleged $558, but Mr Clark, the superintendent, was absent at the time Curry was received, and Curry himself is understood to blame the parties who first received and undressed him. Curry claims that including $558.47 and what he paid for board, nursing and doctoring, he is out $715.50, and he brings suit for this amount, and for enough more in the way of penalty, to make the sum demanded SI,OOO. It is to be presumed that the facts in the case will all be brought out at the trial, and until then we refrain from comment, further however, than to say that we are perfectly satisfied that if there should have been any wrong doing in the matter, Superintendent Clark has had no knowledge of it, and his record will be, as it always has been heretofore, perfectly clear.