Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1908 — Want Land Transfer Set Aside. [ARTICLE]

Want Land Transfer Set Aside.

• A rather odd mrtt tma hnnn rrnniipy. ing the attention of the White county circuit court for several days and it is really , a Jasper County case, all the plaintiffs living in Hanging Grove township and the attorneys being from Rensselaer. The testimony in the case was concluded Monday evening, but the argument will not be made until soine day In July. ------- — As nearly as we can ascertain, the facts in the case are about as follows: Elizabeth Redd is a dwarfed young •woman, whose mother some years ago married Uncle David Culp, of near McCoysburg, and Miss Redd has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Culp. Her sister is the mother of Harry Rishllng, and Mrs. Culp and the two daUfehlres were t a ‘legacy of 120 acre# of land by John B. Redd. The land is in Glllam township, this county. Some time later the land was transferred to Harry Rishllng and he sold it to Royal Brenneman, of Francesville, who later sold it to othei parties. And now suit is brought by David Culp and wife and Elizabeth Redd to have the deed set aside on the grounds that Elizabeth Redd was of unsound mind when her third interest in the estate was transferred to Rishllng. Of course; only Elisabeth Redd’s one-third of the estate is in question and this amounts to about $2,000 or $2,600 Jn value. That Brenneman was an innocent pur chafer there seems no doubt, and yet if there was anything crooked about the deal it looks like it would fall to Brenneman for the settlement of it. . The case will be argued some Ame in vacation and the judgment of the court will be withheld until the September term.