Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1905 — Ira Drake Won the Case. [ARTICLE]

Ira Drake Won the Case.

Readers of the Herald will re member that at the close of the investigation of the county books last spring the report showed that Ira It. Drake, ex-county clerk, owed the county $875.76. When this account, was presented to Mr. Drake lie strongly denied ils correctness, claiming rather that the county owed him. But the couimissioneis iusisted upon a settlement in accordance with the finding of the expert. and Drake employed an attorney and assistant to go over the books and figure his side of it. The commissioners brought suit for the amount alleged to be due and the caie was tried this week with the result that instead of the county Collecting the $8 7 5, Drake was given judgement for $159.29 against the county. —Goodlaml IL raid. 1

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