Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1909 — Squire M. P. Comer Holds Court In Barkley Township. [ARTICLE]

Squire M. P. Comer Holds Court In Barkley Township.

Squire M. P.Comer w-case “occasionally in Barkley township, and he was the judge in a case last week that involved the point of law as to whether or not a man is legally responsible for debts contracted before he had attained his majority. The case was that of James Wiseman, the Aix store keeper, vs. Abner Garriott, wherein the former sued the latter for $10.30, which account he alleged had been standing for some eight years. Mr. Wiseman was not represented by counsel but Garriott had employed Attorney E. P. Honan. The trial was before a jury of six men, and Garriott proved that he was only 18 years of age he contracted the debt and thus not financially responsible, so the jury found for Garriott, and Wiseman will fall for the trial costs, amounting to about S2O. The law is just about as expensive in Barkley township as any place else, and just about as “on sartain.”