The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-20

SNElLBAKER WILL 10 PROBATE
he Lang Case Engages Csut's Aitel6sl FL
e. Some Tine. Ssne Divorces Granted.
Jldse Returns Hsne


The last week Of court was al
busy cne. . large number Of casesl
being disposed Of BY jury trial q
settlement. Following the case of
w. w. Cushman against D. C..|
Thew, Of which mention was madsl
in last weeks issue Of The Review,
the case Of r. A. Romans against
Thew was called for trial. This
case was tried here once before and
. verdict rendered in favor Of
Romans for $l26.O0 and afterwards
appealed to the Supreme Court, re-
versed and sent back for : trial. a
settlement was effected. whereby Mr..
Thew paid Mr.. Romans 500. also
paying his costs both in the District
and the Supreme Court, ana Romans
paying his costs.
Frank Robb against Borchardt Bros.
OF Charter Oak was the next case
tried to : jury. being an action to re-
cover . commission jointly earned BY
the plaintiff and the defendant. The
defendant collected the whole Of the
commission and refused to divide with
the plaintiff, who Was compelled q
bring suit 10 recover his share of the
prizes cherg for selling the faEdssa
The jury rendered ! verdict in favor
iof Mr.. Robb for sl2O. one ha + Of the
commission.
/ In the case Of Michael o Connor
versus Louie Evers, County Treasurer.
which grew out Of an effort By the tax
ferret to collect money on mortgages
which it 10 claimed o. 'Connor did not
list with the assessor. The court
sustained the claim Of the county. ex-
cept as to the year 1908. and required
Mr.. O'Csnnor to pay the tax.
In the case Of Christen Thompson
versus Farmers State Bank, being .
suit to recover upon certificate Of
deposit. issued some thirteen or four
teen years ago. and which the bank
claims was paid. the court, at for
mer term. sustained the demurrer
to the petition. but afterwards re-
considered and overruled the demurrer
thereby holding the bank to be liable.
On the final trial Of the case. the
court rendered Judgment in favor Of
the bank and taxed the costs to the
plaintiff.
III the case Of Margarethx Topft
versus Margaret Healy in which the
defendant was declared to be Of un-
sound mind. one b. H. Rust, BROTH
erin law Of the defendant was q short
time ago about the time she was sent
to the asylum 1t Clarinda ap-
pointed guardian. Her husband,
James Healy, at this term Of court,
intervened and asked to be allowed to
be substituted as guardian for his
wife. An order was made appointing
him, and further order permitting
the guardian to mortgage the land to
raise money to pay off an encum-
brance on the property.
10 the case Of Robert Dodge versus
Alice B. Dodge decree Of divorce
WAS granted the husband.
In the case Of Pearl Noel versus
Ed. Noel which WAS also IN action for
divorce, the matrimonial tie was SER
vered and the plaintiff given . divorce.
In the Snellbaker will case tried to
the court earlier in the term, de-
cision Was rendered on Friday. admit
ting the will to probate. thereby
overruling the objections Of the broth.
er Of Miss Snellbaker that the will
was not legally executed, that being
the only issue involved in the case.
The case will be appealed to the Su-
preme Court.
The Lang case engaged the stten
tion of the court for q time on Fri
day The case has been appealed t.
the Supreme court and attorneys fol
Mr.. Lang endearored TO prove to the
court that they were entitled to ,
large allowance for procuring tran.
script of evidence and for printing
in the Supreme court, % well as at
torney fees. and a very substantial
reduction of the value Of the ward
estate was had in the allowance tina
was made.