The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-21
FOUR METHODS
OF RELIEF IN SIGHT
Charges That Continsous Circuit
Court at Crown Point Will Not
Be Wanted By Attorneys In the
Northern Part of Lake County at
Present. =

On next Monday evening, In the Lake
will be held the most Important meets
ing of the Lake County Bar associa-
ton that has been held In recent years.
The great question OF relieving the
congestion of the Lake superior court
will be taken UP, and as Gary Is vitality
interested In this matter, the Gary Bar
association will hold a meeting at the
Gary hotel this evening to formulate
it's demands for recognition.
It is understood that Gary would like
to see a court established in the new
steel city, and its lawyers are going
after a Gary court in precisely the
same manner that its business men go
after and get almost anything they
want for the city.
All VIII he Present.
It may be expected that on next Mon
day. when the meeting of the Lake
County Bar association is called to-
gether, there will be every lawyer in
Gary present.
1t may also be taken Jr granted that
a great many lawyers of the Lake
county bar outside of Gary will not be
present, and it is possible that the Gary
attorneys will outvote the ones from
the rest of the county.
It is understood that there will be
several plans offered for relieving the
congestion of the court at Hammond.
The plans which have been suggested
are as follows:
(a) Establish a branch of the
Lake superior court at Gary.
OBJ Establish a continuous cir
cult court at Crown Point.
(c) Establish branch of the
superior court at Hammond.
Id Give city courts jurisdiction
fH civil cases to $1,000.
Merits of Each Considered.
These four cases will be taken up
by the members of the Lake County
Bar assocition and the merits of each
| of them will be considered. 1t is very
likely that the proposition to have q
continuous circuit court at Crown Point
will not find very many supporters, in
view OF the fact that most of the legal
| business originates in northern Lake
county and Crown Point is such an OUT
of-the-way place for an attorney to att
tempt to do business.
1
Chicago lawyers will likely oppose the
proposition to establish a court at
Gary on the theory that Gary is asking
| too much to want court there when
the town IS still smaller than East Chi
cago and Hammond, and when Indiana
| Harbor is more nearly the center Of
population of the region.
There is also expected to be consid-
| erable opposition to the establishing OF
an additional court at Hammond. and
the impression among the lawyers of
the county seems to be that it would be
the best plan to increase the jurisdic-
tion Of the city courts in Lake county
to an extent that would permit them
to handle civil cases in matters involv-
ing not more than $1,000.
Would Placate All Cities.
This would placate both Gary, East
Chicago and Indiana Harbor and would
relieve the congestion of the Lake su-
perior court as we'll 1t is said that
this arrangement is approved by a
large majority of the members of the
Lake county bar. and that this may
finally be the solution OF the court
problem.
The lawyers all over the county
are interested in the demands which
will be formulated by the members of
the Gary Bar association at their meet
ing tonight. They want to know where
Gary stands.
It should be remembered that Gary
has been preparing for this occasion
for some time, and recently the law
yers in the city appoir ted a committee
70 investigate the business that was
cent to the Lake superior court by
Gary lawyers and originated in Gary.
This report viii probably be ready
and will form the basis for Gary's de-
mands. u