Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — The End Is In Sight of the Court Home Fight [ARTICLE]

The End Is In Sight of the Court Home Fight

The appellate court got quick action on the two bewton county court house cases, recently appealed by Morocco people, from the circuit court. In both cases the decisions w r ere against Morocco, and, it would seem, have put a final end to their unavailing fight against the new court house at Kentland. One of the cases was the one in which Judge Hanley gave a judgment against the county in favor of the parties who had bought the first issue of court house bonds, and from which decision the Morocco people took an appeal, but the county commissioners were opposed to the appeal. The appellate court dismissed the appeal. The other case was the one in which the Morocco people alleged that the partly erected building does not belong to Newton county, and asking for an order for its removal from the public square; also asking for a temporary injunction against the completion of the building. The appellate court decided that the building does belong to Newton county, and also refused to issue a temporary injunction against its completion. As the county council has appropriated the money to complete the building, and the commissioners have ordered it done and the bonds to be issued, it would seem that at last the Kentland people have a sure cinch on an early completed new court house. And whatever sympathies outside people may have had for Morocco in the fight for the county seat, and such sympathy was quite general here, the most of them now recognize that Morocoo’s case is hopeless, for many years at least, and they therefore think ths only sensible thing to do is to complete the building at Keatland.