Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1903 — Not the primeval Turpie-Lowe Case. [ARTICLE]

Not the primeval Turpie-Lowe Case.

Montio-110 Herald. Some of the daily papers have much to say about a Turpie-Lowe” case that came up for another hearing in the Cass circuit court yesterday. The Turpie Lowe cases ended two years ago in a judgment in favor of Hugh Lowe and against the Turpies for over $12,000 damages and for 440 acres of land, known as the Braxton land and the Bradford lands. The lands Lowe holds today but the judgment is uncollectible by reason of the insolvency of the Turpies. The claims of Cornelius M. Horner agaipst which gtew out sol the Turpie transaction, have afi been decided in Lowe’s favor except one note for $1,235, and he would have paid that note* long ago if Horner’s attorneys, who were also Turpie’s, had not held out for a sum for attorneys’ fees on the note large enough to cover fees for their services in all the cases. They are now demanding $4,500 attorney’s fees on a $1,235 note and of course Lowe is resisting. It is this case'that was called for trial at Logansport yesterday and not the Turpie-Lowe case at all. The Turpie-Lowe case was in the courts seventeen years, three times in the Supreme court and outlived sixty or more of the parties. judges, attorneys ami witnesses who had a hand in it. But it is dead at last. It iB a wonder that anybody interested in it survived it.