Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — Famous Case Ended. [ARTICLE]

Famous Case Ended.

After Nineteen Years of Litigation the Tnrpie-Lowe Case Closes. Logansport Reporter: Afterlawing for eighteen years, one of the Turpie-Lowe cases has beense’tled by the payment of a judgment into the treasury of the Cass circuit court. Yesterday $3,600 was paid to C erk Liennemann by the attorneys for Hugh Lowe. This settles one of the four cases, which have occupied the courts of this county and of the state for almost nineteen years. D. C. Justice/who has been identified with the cases ever since they first started, this morning gave the following concise statement of the cases. On December 5, 1885, Cornelius Horner brought suit against Hugh Lowe to collect a promissory note amounting to $1,235. About the same time the Turpies brought two suite against Lowe and they were brought to trial in the White* county courts In 1889 the suits were venued to this county and upon a motion of Lowe they were all consolidated into one suit, he asserting that they all involved the same transaction, Judge Frazier tried the case. It took sixteen we ks to try it, and the judge found for the p'aintiff. The case was appealed to the supreme court and there it remained for six years. At 1-ngth the higher court reversed the decision and sent the case back for- trial. The

higher court also held that the cases were not based on the same facts and ordered them separated and tried upon their} individual merits. This was done and the cases have since been going through the courts. To the above from the Logansport paper we may add that at the original trial of the case, Ex-JuHge S. P Thompson, of Rensselaer, was Lowe’s principal attorney Further that he prepared Lowe’s first brief when the case first reached the Supreme Court, and it was printed in The Republican job printing department, and was and still is the biggest brief ever printed in Jasper county. The case involved a great deal of property, though no hint to that effect is given in the above article How much it involved it would probably be hard for anyone to state very accurately. Enough however, that had the Turjiies got out of Lowe all they contended for, he would probably have been bankrupted, wealthy man as he is