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PROSECUTOR
TO GET EN-
Up In RiChIdnd Co. II Costs
Are Not Paid
In Cases Pending In Common
Pleas Since 1907
About $500 Will Be Collect
ed By Prosecutor
Following Out Provisions OF
A New Law
Other Notes OF Interest From
The Court House

Up in Richland cohnty the Prosecut.
ing attorney is preparing to "go after"
all persons who have not paid costs
in cases in the court of common pleas
since Jan. 1, 1907. According to new
law the prosecutor can proceed to col
lect unpaid costs in cases and in Rich
land county this is to be done.
In speaking of the matter the Mans
field News says:
County Clerk J. M. Ottinger and
his deputies have been engaged in the
last week or ten days in the work of
making up list of unpaid costs in
civil cases in common pleas court
since Jan. /, 1907, at which time the
new county officers salary law went
into effect.
The law, which undergoes many
changes in the course of a few years,
now provides in connection with the
new salary law that the clerk shall
make up list of unpaid costs in cas-
es tried in common pleas court and
copy of the same shall be furnished to
the prosecuting attorney of the coun-
ty. When the county clerk has ex-
hausted means of collecting these un-
paid costs 1t Is then up to the prose-
cutting attorney to take action and he
may employ any means he sees fit to
to stand even to bringing suit in COM
mon pleas court, no matter II there Is
only few dollars of costs standing.
These features of the new law will
make lot of people who owe costs
in civil cases to sit up and take notice.
1t is estimated that when the unpaid
list of costs Is completed for Richland
county since Jan. /, 1907, 1t will make
| several long typewrltten pages and
the amount of costs in the ag.
gregate will be $500 to $500. Most of
these people who have refused to pay
costs in law suit when statement
is sent to them by the county clerk
are well able to pay and since the
legislature has thrown the new pro-
tecting law around the cost proposi
| tlon people who owe costs will have
to pay them In looking over the list
of people who owe costs one is amazed
al the number of apparently good cit
liens who are to be found with their
| names written there. 1t was suggest
ed this morning at the clerks office
when the lists of unpaid costs were
| exhibited that If the prosecuting at
torney were to direct that the lists be
published as advertising matter that
| II would create a sensation. This $500
or $500 worth of unpaid costs does
not go to the clerk or any other county
official but will be paid into the treas
ury of Richland county when the pros.
ecutor has collected the money. The
| prospects, are that an awful howl will
| go up when suits are filed against
good respectable people for costs
ranging from $3.50 to $40 or $50. Some
people will pay coal and grocery bills
but Will pay no attention to cost
bill after they are through with a law
suit,
Ohio eX rel, Baxter, superintendent
of banks, In charge of the Gambler
Banking Co.. VS.. p. l.. Walker ct al,
is the title of new suit filed In the
court of common pleas of Knox county
in which the plaintiff seeks to recover
the sum of 5000, the action being
based on a proimssory note. Theo
dore d. Robb is the attorney for the
plaintiff in this action,
| o.
Case Appealed