Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-12
BIG DOCKET
IN PROSPECT
MANY PETITIONS ARE BEING
FILED FOR THE AUGUST TERM
or DISTRICT COURT.
A BUSY SESSION
NlneAeen Cases Filed Since Yesterday
and rron1ise 81 Record Term for
Summer Session OF Judge
Anderson.

The biggest docket for years an
perhaps the record docket for Angus
term of district court is being con
piled from the huge number OF case
filed for the next hearing since tn
last term Of court. Yesterday and Il
day have marked very busy periO
for the clerk Of court and his deput,
Today is the last day Of fling action
for hearing during the August teri
which will be opened by Judge D. N
Anderson Of Abba, Monday, Angus
81. Nineteen petitions have bee
filed since yesterday afternoon AM
more will likely be filed befort tn
day is ended. These cases represen
q variety OF actions with suits on &C
counts wherein various sized judg
ments are sought, in the vast majority
Two more cases were filed today X
which the plaintiffs are railroad mel
who have been garnisheed by bust
ness men outside of the state and thu
suits are brought for damages on the
grounds that Iowa's exemption Law
toward married men prevents theil
garnishment. Two divorces are seer
in the list In which both complainant
are men and the averments are cruelty
among other things
Nineteen Cases Filed.
The petitions filed are as follows:
w. McKenna VS. G. W. Evans. Asks
Judgment for $S42.57 claimed due fol
thing farm. A judgment for $1992s
Is sought by Lazarus & Well from 6.
H, Doherty on a merchandise account
and judgement aggregating $094.75
on promissory notes from the same
defendant by L. H. Schafer & CO. ct al
C. A. Henderson, Rock Island en-
pioye wants $4,000 from F. 0. Weber
because OF q garnishec in Missouri.
The plaintiff claims that the law or
Iowa exempts him and that the garn-
ishment was malicious and has dam
aged him in the sum Of $4,000. George
Day, Burlington employee filed q
similar petition asking $4,000 damages
because of garnishment by e. j.
Thompson in Kansas when Iowa laws
exempted him. Horatio r. Wilson &
Co., vs. w. II. UT, ct al IL the title of
q SUIT for $2,750 claimed due the plain
TIL for services In connection with the
plans. designing and superintendent
Of the UT building. Ruth e. Reynolds
of Boston, Mass, seeks to recover
81 ,0e6.4b from William and Sarah
Kohl claiming that some years ago
she left 4 quantity OF personal property
with l.. O. Johnson for storage at $1:25
per month storage charge. and that
L. o. Johnson elected to sell same
for charges and these goods she al
leges were purchased by w. Kohl.
Lowenberg Brothers have filed q suit,
for $154.43 against j. Harry Cremer on
merchandise account Thompson
Croker Shoe Co. seek a judgment
against Smith &Redmond for $188.70.
Wolfe Brothers Shoe Co., also seek
judgment against Smith & Redmond for
$134.C3, Haag & Walden are after a
Judgment against Smith & Redmon for
$40. yinsohaler Shoe Co. want a
judgment for $189.75 from the same
firm and Harry j. Lobdell Co, seek to
recover on account judgment for
$1,A79.S5 from Smith & Redmond. N.
Friedman is made defendant in suit
for 3125 by A. Rathkowsky. Claiming
that a bonfire started by the defendant
led to the destruction of her property
nearby, Mary Mulvaney filed suit for
$1,000 against Anna Kane ct al. The
Wapello County Commercial Agency
wants $7S.75 from w. v. Silvers for
sixty-three months rating service.
Margaret Ellen Selman has flied petit
ton asking for an accounting from the
executors in the estate Of relative
In the case OF Selman VS. Samuel Hun
ter ct al. James McDonough wants
separation from Cuba McDonough on
the charge of cruelty. George Hannah
asks a similar favor from the court
on the grounds of cruelty by Minnie
Hannah whom he also accuses OF
statutory ofIense. He asks the custody
Of three minor children and that an
order issued from the court awarding
him temporary custody during the
tendency Of the action,