The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1913-04-11

tiff's attorney was c. r. Jorgen-
son. The county answered and
the case was tried before Judge
McNulty and a jury on December
i2, 1911, and Judge McNulty di-
rected verdict in favor of the
county on the plaintiffs own evil
dence. Judgment was entered
dismissing the action and in favor
OF the county for costs $3.50,
which costs were duly paid by
MIR. Jorgenson S client and the
money turned into the treasury of
Roberts county.
The case of the Minneapolis
Threshing Machine Company
against Roberts County, No.
2oo4. was brought to recover var
ious sums for personal property
taxes and collected by Sheriffs
Mlinder and Swanson from the
Minneapolis Threshing Machine
Company and paid by them un-
der protest. The summons and
complaint was served on June u,
1o11, and Mr.. .Iorgenson was at
torney for plaintiff The County
answered and the case was tried
before Judge Carpenter on Febru-
AIRY 22, 3, and a Judgment rem
dered for the defendant County
upon the merits and for the costs
of the suit This is the case in
which Mr. Jorgenson has recently
denied that he was attorney for
the plaintiff, but the summons
and the complaint which were
served on the County Commis-
sioners were signed by Mr.. Jor-
genson, and the complaint was
verified by him in an affidavit in
which he swore, under his solemn
oath, that he was the attorney for
the plaintiff.
4 The case OF S. L. Peterson and
&c. E. Lassin VS.. Roberts County
and John Haney, No. 263o, was
an action brought by Mr.. Jor-
genson as attorney for the own
ers of land through which the
county ditch passes, to enjoin the
County and John Haney, its con-
tractor employed to dig the ditch,
from digging the Lake and Lee
ditch. The summons and COM
plant and injunction were served
1 May II, 1911; defendants answer
ed and on May 2o, 1911, the
Court, on motion of the defend
ants, ordered the injunction va
Gated on defendants giving a
bond of 100000, which was done,
and the injunction was vacated
and the ditch was dug. Notice
OF trial was served in this case
and it was put on the December,
1911, calendar of the Circuit Court
but has never been tried.
The case of S. L. Peterson
against Roberts County, No. 200,
was commenced on October S,
1911. 1t was an action brought
:, by Mr.. Jorgenson for S. l.. Peter
son to recover $25oo.oo as dam
ages to plaintiffs farm claimed
to have been caused by reason of
the construction OF the Lake and
Lee ditch through his farm. The
County appeared and answered
and the case was tried before
Judge McNulty and a jury on
December 6, 1911, and on plain
tiff's own evidence put iii by Mr..
Jorgenson on the trial, verdict
was directed by Judge McNulty
in favor of the defendant County,
and costs taxed against Mr.. Jor-
gensons client.
A very interesting feature OF
this case developed at the trial.
Some of Peterson's witnesses
Fstated under oath that they claim
ed their own farms had been
damaged in the same manner as
Fetersons' farm by the construc-
ton of the same ditch, and that
in case Peterson should win out
in his suit against the County,
they intended to bring suits
against the County for heavy
damages. 1t was generally under
stood at that time by people who
lived in that locality that Jor-
genson had been very active
among the owners of the farms
!, through which the ditch run in
: working up prospective cases Of