Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-03-18
LAWYERS RUSH
THEIR CAUSES
HALF DOZEN PETITIONS FILED
ON THE LAST DAY FOR
RECEIVING CASES.
ANOTHER COAL CASE
Suit Involving $4,000 for Mineral
Rights in Marion County on File
Fulton Notes Come Into
Court Again.

Owing to this being the last day Tor
filling cases that are to be heard III
district court during the March term
no less than six petitions were re-
corded with the clerk of court since
yesterday afternoon. The fact that
the March term opens on MONDAY
March q or within ten days after the
fling of petitions closes, the attorneys
have been busy for the past two days
in filing their various causes. Thls
is necessary in order to give the clerk
an opportunity to docket the cases and
get the dockets printed for the use or
the bar during the term.
Big Coal Land Suit.
In the causes filed, two of them re-
cali cases that were heard during the
term just concluding, enc CT which
was somewhat spectacular in the
amount involved and the time taken
to hear it. This was the Sewers
Cleveland Coal Co., suit involving sew
eral thousands Of dollars and having
to do with purchase of coal lands
largely in Marion county in what was
known as the Belinda-Dallas lands.
The same property is concerned IN
another legal battle in which Sarah
Cloud seeks a sum aggregating $S,475
from the Cleveland Coal Co., for coal
lands sold in this section largely
through Byron Sewers. In her peti.
ton Sarah Cloud embraces the claims
of nine other plaintiffs who assigned
their causes to her and she asks a
Judgment for $S,475 with interest at s
per cent.
The Fulton Notes. !.
An echo of the First National bank
Fulton case recently decided in favor
of the bank, Is seen in the petition
filed by w. A. Fulton against the Iowa
Underwriters Agency Co. The suit
deals with the two notes that were in
volved in the former suits and in adj
dition to these is a dividend Of ten per
cent granted on five shares of stock
owned by w. C. Miller who has as
signed his cause to the plaintiff.
P. L. Fulton has also assigned his
cause to w. A. Fulton and claims pos
session of five shares Of stock in the
defendant company for which he never
received a certificate. The plaintiff
states that he and P. l.. Fulton gave
notes for $500 to the defendant for
Ave shares of stock on July II, 1903,
and March %, 1908, respectively and
that w. C. Miller. owned five shares OF
stock which was shown on the records
of the defendant company January 10,
1910 when q dividend of ten per cent
amounting to $50 on his stock was de-
clared, but which he claims was never
given him. The entire amount sought
is computed at $1,055.
Sue for $4,000.
Claiming that I. G.. Furman handled
the orders of Charles ). Kobel, H.
Shaded and NJ. F. Broadwell through
a bucket shop while operating a.leased
wire for the purchase and sale through
brokers, G. J. Kobel brings suit
against I. G. Furman for $4,000. He
claims in his petition that he gave or
ders to I. G. Furman to be handled
through reputable and solvent bankers
and that Shaded and M. F. Broadwe]l
did the same. He states that the
broker through whom /. G. Furman
operated was the c.. e. Butlman Co.,
of Cincinnati, whom the plaintiff desig.
mates as conducting bucket shop;
that the Bultman house failed and the
plaintiff was thus made the loser Of
$725. H. Shaded $500, and M. F. Broad
well S715. Both Of the latter assigned
their causes to c. ]. Kobel who makes
a claim for a judgment in the sum Of
$4,000.
Two Divorce Suits.
Charging that his wife has con
tracted the habit of drinking to excess