Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — To Reconstruct Court System. [ARTICLE]

To Reconstruct Court System.

Indianapolis Journal: A meeting of the committs of the State Bar Association appointed to draft a bill for an act reconstructing the court system of Indiana, which will he presented to the next General Assembly, was held here Thursday afternoon. Judge E. P, Hammond, of Lafayette, is the chairman of the * committee, and among the Prominent members is Judge Truman F. Palmer of Monticello, former president of the State Bar Association, who started the movement to secure this legislation Judge Palmer. Presented the rough draft of a bill for the consideration of the committee, but beyond discussing the question at some length nothing was done. Definite action was deferred to another meeting of the committee, which will be held on the eve of the meeting of the State Bar Association next month at Fort Wayne. The change sought in the court system is one whereby the circuit judges will travel from one circuit to anothea within a district composed of a limited number of circuits. Such systems obtain in New York and Illinois among other states. In Illinois three circuits are thrown into one district, and the judges hold court iu each of the circuits in turn. Under this system, when a change of venue is taken, the judge to try the case comes into the county where the case was instituded.

Loans on farms and city property made by Austin A Hopkins on the best terms and shortest time of any firm in Jasper County.