The Mena weekly star., 1916-10-19
COURT BUSY WITH
 MINOR CIVIL CASES
Judge Bowling Fills Petit Jury Mena Special School District Be- ing Shed far Taxes Alleaed to
 Belong to Thacker School.

session of the Circuit court was that of A. w. Lowrey vs. Mrs. A. A. Campbell. This was an action ap- pealed from the Justice Court of $. II. Smith and was brought to re- cover sgii0 alleged to be due the plaintii fer labor performed for the defendant The plaintiif secured judgment in the amount of si615 and appealed. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant.
 The case of the P. B. Ringsold heirs by |. A. Harrison vs. Oscar Brown was an action which was ap- poaled from the court of II. J. Rad- clitfe. and involved the enforcement of landlords lien. The lower court rendered judgment in favor of Claude Rinsgold for one-half in- terest in bales of cotton, 100 bushels of corn, 70 bushels of cotton seed and an attachment was issued and the property ordered sold to satisfy the judgment and from this judgment appeal was taken. The Jury In the Circuit court, passed 0n- ly upon the value of the improve ments made by the defendant as tenant as part rental and fixed the amount at $500, otherwise the judgement in the lower court was 
 Judge Bowling. on Monday or dered special venlre of petit ju- TOTS to make up the deficiency on account of those excused. G. w. Heath, Reuben Harrison, P. C. Ro- gers, G. l.. Clement. l. A. Henderson and C. M Edwards were selected as these special jurors.
 One of the cases up for hearing al this term of Circuit court is that of School district No. B, commonly known as the Thacker school, against Mena Special school dis tFlct. The action was brought by Attorneys McPhetrige and Martin and is brought to recover school taxes on the Nla SWA Sec. 8, T. 2S., R. BOW. and the corporations that are assessed i'll this tract of land. on the allegation that the said tract and the corporations have been assessed in Mena school whereas 1t is alleged that said tract is embraced in the ter ritory of school district No. 33. Minor Pipkin, as president of the Mena school district, has filed an answer and cross complaint. in which he denies that said N15 SWA Sec. S-2-30 is embraced in school district No. B and that no part of the rlght-of-way of the Kansas City Southern is located on this land, and that Mena school district has not enormously and illegal ly received the school taxes arising rom the assessment of properties located upon said lands. ss cross complaint, the defendant district all leges that the lands in question are wholly within the limits of said dis trict since the creation of the dis trict. but that since 1906 the taxes arising from the assessment of said have been enormously and illegally paid to and nave been appropriated and used by school district No. B, and that the revenues thus enormously di- verted amount to S24.36, and hence the defendant district asks for judgment for that amount.
 The grand jury made it's first re- port to the court Tuesday morning, returning three indictments, and the court ordered that return be made on these indictments for next Mon day.
 The case of c. D. King vs. The Watkins Lumber Company was an other case appealed from the Jus tice court of s H Smith. in which a judgment had been rendered in the of S5.31 against the defen- dant- and from this judgment. ap- peal was taken. The matter at is- sue was the difference between l5c and t71ac per hour for 223 hours of services rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant company. The jury returned verdict in favor .f the plaintiff, returning judgment hr SS.75.
 The ease of ]. NJ. Pierce vs. w. C.. Gordon was an action brought to recover on a note sold by the de- fendant to the plaintiff. The case came to be heard on an appeal from the court of H. J. Radcliffe, wherein a judgment was rendered
 in the amount of Slf450, and from this judgment the defendant ap- pealed The case was tried with Judge Alley representing the plain tiff tho his client was not in court, and Minor Pipkin representing the defendant. After hearing the evil ience. the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defen- fant.
 Newton Tibbs, who was apprehen- 1ed on or about September 29, in fhe store Of the Watkins Lumber X Company in Hatfield, and had since been confined in the coun-' W jail. was indicted by the grand jury on the charge of grand lar ,eny. the offense consisting in talk
 ing nine sacks of flour. one sack of meal, and twenty pounds of bacon, all of the value of S23. The young man appeared in court Tuesday and plead guilty to the charge. He was given a sentence of year in the 
 Tn the suit brought by W. NJ. against B. V. and Josie Garden. the court overruled a de- nurrer to the complaint of the plaintiff. and thereafter the case was continued to the next term of court.
 The action of Rural Special school district No. 10 against school dis Irict No. 44 was dismissed ois motion )f the appellee.
 The case of W. A. Garner vs. Jas.
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