Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — SQUIRE BUSSELL FULL OF BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

SQUIRE BUSSELL FULL OF BUSINESS.

Squire Bussell, of the Supreme Court of Hanging Grove, is giving the wolves a much needed rest now and instead is busy rounding up the reluctant fathers of legally fatherless children. Some of the facts of the settlement ot the Becker vs Morris case have been given, but further particulars are now available. Miss Cora Becker, of White county, is the plaintiff, and Jesse Morris, of Hanging Grove, the defendant, and a nice little ten day old girl baby the cause of the contention. In the compromise of the case that was entered into before the Squire Wednesday, Morris pays the young woman $450 and* the cost of the ease, which was sl2 more. Of this amount a house and two lots in Monon were taken at S3OO and the balance was in cash. His honor decreed that the child’s name should commemorate its distinguished parentage on both sides of the house, and made it Jessie Becker Morris, and he further decreed that the deed for the Monon property should be in the baby’s name. It was also decided that the White Circuit Court should appoint a guardian for the baby. Still another case along this same line called the Squire ever into his tributary township of Milroy, last Monday. In this case Miss Etta Martin was the plaintiff and John Crownover a young man who has been working on the Thompson and Lawler ranch, was the defendant. The ruling quotations seem to run a good deal lower in Milroy than in cases from White county, and in this case a compromise was affected for SSO cash, and the costs of the case. This affidavit was made by the girl’s father, William Martin, and he is the same man who had J. T. Becker arrested in the dead horse case, and Becker is the father of the plaintiff in the Becker vs Morris case, above des cribed.