Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-06
BEAsoN CASE BEING TRIED
Jury In Case Has Been Secured and
the Opening Arguments are Be
ing Made This Morning

JIG OEC2AAB Ah8UulCuIS SfO DO
ing Made This Morning
The May term of the Audubon
County District Court is now in ses-
sion with Judge Rockafellow, of At
lantic on the bench.
Court opened Tuesday afternoon at
which time the matter of securing
naturalization papers was taken up.
Neils Christian Land Jensen of this
city and George Peter Nielsen of Ex-
ira took out papers.
The first case to be tried was that
Of Frank Gmutney VS. Julia Smutney
ct al. This fs case involving the
sale of the two store buildings on
South Park owned by the Smutney
estate. The buildings had been Of
fered for sale and ]. II. Baker negot-
lated for the purchase of the room he
is occupying and A. c. Harmon ne
gotiated for the purchase Of the room
occupied by Renftle & Reed. The
buildings had been appraised by or
der of the court and the appraised
valuation was $500 for each build
ing. Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Harmon bid
$500 for each store room. In the
meantime Frank Smptney died so the
sale was never completed and some
Of the heirs are now unwilling to sell
the property. The case was not fin
ished by the time the petit jurors
were called to appear. so the case has
been postponed few days, or until
after the Beason damage, case has
been disposed of.
All of Wednesday afternoon was
devoted to selecting jury in the
case of Julius Johnson of BraytOn,
Va A. e. BeasOn of this city. This
case Ia the outgrowth of the accident
that took place last November on
election day, ON the road near the
county farm. Mr.. Johnson was in
jured az was also Mike Simmersen,
who was in the car with Mr.. John
son. Both men brought suit against
Mr.. Beason asking damages in sum
OF 5000 each. They are holding Mr..
Beason responsible from the fact that
Bert johnson whom the plaintiffs
claim was responsible for the acct
dent, was in the employ of Mr.. Bea-
son. A number of conflicting stories
were told at the time of the accident.
and In fact they are attempting to
show in this trial just how the acct
dent happened and who is really re-
sponsible. .
H. N. BooPman, of Atlantic took up
the case of Julius Johnson the plain
TIL, while Mr.. Beason has w. r.
Green, Mantz & White and Ross &
Kerberg to defend him in the action.
The jury selected to determine the
case IL composed of the following:
Peter f. Jensen Of Audubon; C. E.
Dustin, Gray; Henry Fisher, Mann
ing; James CARRIER, Gray; M. F. En-
lert. Ross; r. L. Taylor, Audubon;
Fred Dreher, Ross, Phillip Kraus,
Chris Rasmussen. Audubon; Jorgen
Thygesen, Audubon and Franklin
Jorgensen, Kimballton.
The opening statement by the de-
Tense was made shortly after nine
o'clock this morning by w. r. Green.
He was followed by H. M. Boorman
who represents the plaintig. i. I
The case 10 attracting considerable
linterest and no doubt the court room
Win be well filled. 20. expected that
the case VIII occupy the balance Of
the week. IS &
FolioWins d the assignment Of
cases, after the completion OF the
present case: ~
May l7-Hialmer Rasmussen vs.
H. P. Hansen.
|, May I'D. w. Sutherland VS. A.
a. Briggs; Geo. J. Nielsen vs. VIM.
Rasmussen: H. q Jewell vs 8. A. and
N. 6. Heater. aa
May 19--P. X. Jensen vs. Peter
Nielsen; NJ. H. Thornburgh We G.. C.
Nielsen; In re estate Of Anna Kness
May 22-John H. Pharnham VS.
Millicent Butterton ct al. ss ~
May 24-F. M. Hensley VS. ]. e.
Mcclure.