Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1909 — IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE WASON. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE WASON.

Holds Borntrager Ditch Petition Legal and Refers It To Commissioners For Fixing Assessments.

Judge Wason this Saturday morning held that the Borntrager ditch petition in every respect conforms to the law, and the ditch was referred to the drainage commissioners, W. F. Osborne and Lucius Strong, of this county, and Ira H. Drake, of Newton county, to make up the assessments against property affected. This is greatly in favor of the construction of the ditch, which is the extension of the Iroquois ditch from the lower end of the completed work to a point in Newton county, south of Brook. It does not mean, however, that the ditch will be built, as there will be a large number of bills of exception. The remonstrators are largely represented by Judge S. P. Thompson and it is probable that they will carry the case to the supreme court in an effort to defeat construction.