Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — Jury Decides That Gus Myers, of Remington, Was Drunk. [ARTICLE]

Jury Decides That Gus Myers, of Remington, Was Drunk.

Gus Myers, of Remington, was locked; up in the Remington Jail by Nlghtwatch Holland, on the charge of Intoxication. Gus decided after sobering up that he had not been drunk on that particular occasion and he got Jap Guy, a Remington lawyer, to bring action against Holland for false imprisonment, asking damages in the sum of 12,000. The case was tried by a Jury Wednesday and there were a good many Remington witnesses who agreed that Gus was Intoxicated and that his incarceration was proper. The other jurors thought that it would be a dangerous precedent to establish to give a Judgment against an officer for damages for doing his duty and after a time persuaded the twelfth Juryman to the same view. And Gus got no judgment, but he did not get cold on the way home; he had a warm laprobe and was feeling fine when he left the coiirt house. . There really ought to be some means of keeping such flimsy cases out of the circuit court. We will unload a car of fancy Michigan sand grown potatoes this week, 5 bushel lots and up for 50c a bushel from

JOHN EGER.

The Chamber of Commerce of South Bend will incorporate with a capitalisation of $30,000 of which SI,OOO will be common stock and $29,000: preferred.