Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1908 — Nichols--Parks Case Concluded. [ARTICLE]

Nichols--Parks Case Concluded.

inM • Si’t ol 0-oi ' TJ» siflt of Chas. S. Nichols against W. S. Parks, which wa6 tried at Kentland this week, came to an enil Thursday, when the case was turned qver to the Jury at about 4 o’clock that afternoon. The Jury fund at verdict at 11 o’clock and returned “it sealed, and it was opend by theq j court at. 9' o’cftk this Friday morning. The verdict gave the plaintiff damages in the sum of 82, and very evidently all but one of the jurors must have stood for acquittal, and .the findlpg was In deference to him. In cases for personal damages where the Judgment Is for a less sum than |5, the Judgment can not carry with it costs In excess of the fine, so that the total fine and costs was duly 8^