The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-06-22
It BOBS UP AGAIN
Ross Case In the Court for
Twenty-Five Years
LAWYERS COME AND GO
Question of Fees Have Made
More Complications.
LAWYERS COME AND GO

The old case OF ". z. Denny against
George Ross mas bosobed up serenely
again IN the district court. It IS the old
est case IN the court Of this county and
has a right TO bob up. being Of age and
able to stand alone. It IS now twenty
i've, years since the first judgment was
tech- ed.
TheAe have been more lawyers con-
nected with this case than any slut ever
fled in CAie district court of this county.
Whenever q young lawyer came TO the
front with a reputation for knowing a
thing or two about the law. he tackled
tbe Dennv-Ross case and after about
ten or fifteen rounds he would pick him
SER I'D from under the ropes and play
quits.
Away back in the primitive days Of
rs Daniel K. Tenny. q Chicago lawyer.
thought he knew q thing or two and he
gathered some old claim against George
Ross that originated down in Quincy when
George used to be somewhat of a pork
packer In the sucker state, and he came
out here to Wichita to collect his claim
ana after q long 0inded fight he secured
e Judgment for $3.50. TeIAny scrapped
Dver It until his wind gave out and some
Of the Wichita attorneys claim he got
hot and sold the judgment TO W. Z.
Denny of Omaha for 81.
Denny renewed the fight and IN the
spring Of 1891 w. w. Guthrie, W. E.
Btaoley. Charles Hatton and II. G. Rug
eies took q hitch in their belts and
Banec into the fight. That round was
the best Of the fight Up to that time and
wound up by the attorneys attaching
the judgment ana selling it for their at
torney fees. The next year. 1892, J. D.
Houston and Willard Boone, after train
Ing enough to harden their muscles, got !
Into their fighting clothes ana took a
hand They wanted to make the case still
more interesting and made q whole lot
more defendants. They left George Ross
OUT and fled the suit this time against
DAME. r. Tenny, W. A. Denny, ". j.
Stanley and w. w. Guthrie. Houston
and Bocre were young and vigorous and
they made gallant fight and they
wound up this round by trying to attach
and sell the judgment again for their at
toTney fees.
The last attorneys to walk into the ring
stripped for the fight are Irwin Stratton
ana Adams & Adams. They are IN their
respective corners and the spectators
ere cheering for the umpire TO ring the
gong for the contestants to come to the
center. This time the case has got back
to the old title of Denny vs.. Ross, and
bets Of 10 0t0 / are offered on Ross. In
the stipulauons for the battle Stratton
gets in a clause TO the effect that George
Ross owes W. L. Denny nearly $1,000
with close onto q quarter Of a century S
interest at the rate of ten per cent per
annum. Adams & Adams, however, get
in a modifying clause to the effect that
Ross doesn't owe him anything and that
It IS paid and outlawed and dead long
ngo
When Judge Dale gets ready to hear
the case there VIII be another Iong chap
ter added TO the long history and prob
ably IN the beginning of the next CEN
fury when an attorney from the state
OF Luzop and another from the state of
Cuba are before the United States court
arguing the question as 20 whether the
constitution followed the flag into Eng
land. some young attorney from Wichita
viii rise up and interrupt the court 10
ask when it viii be ready TO hear argu-
ments in the Ross case.
Ira D Reckard Duncombe. Ia, writes:
'0dy little boy scalded his leg from the
knee to the ankle I used BANNER
SALNE Immediately and in three weeks
time 1t was almost entirely healed.
want TO recommend it 20 every family
end advise them 10 keep Banner Salve
on hand, as it is a sure remedy for scaIds
or any sores. C. Gehrng. 400 r. Doug
las; Geo Van Werden. 33S n Main;
Wichita. Drug Co. 10 e. Douglas.