Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-03
SIXTEEN CASES DISPOSED OF IN
EFFORT TO CLEAN UP
DOCKET.
JUDGE CUMMINGS SETS
PACE FOR ATTORNEYS
Two Judgments Rendered, Five Cases
Settled, Four Divorces Granted, Four
Cases Dismissed and One VIII Pro-
bated-Quiek Action on Robbins
Damage Suit.

Speed was attained in district court
Tuesday, the second day OF the Sep
TENDER term. when sixteen caeses were
heard, dismissed or settled, and to al
appearances the present sessions is to
be one of action. Judge b. +. Cum
! mings, who is presiding. is insisting on
cleaning up the docket, which Is a
heavy one. In the great mass of legal
matters before the court Tuesday two
judgments were rendered, five cases
settled, four divorces granted and four
cases dismissed, in addition to one will
| being admitted to probate and an as
signment of jury cases being made for
next week.
Quick action was secured in one
case, flied Tuesday, when settlement
was made and approved by the court
and the case closed before adjournment
of court. This was the damage suit of
Orville Robbins, a minor, by his moth
er, Mrs. Alice May Robbins, versus
Donald Kinnan. Suit was brought in
the sum of $500 and a settlement was
effected and approved whereby the de-
and the costs of the suit.
The suit was the result of an acct
dent, March 81 last, when Orville Rob
bins, a messenger boy in the employ
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, in turning on a bicycle in Main
street was struck by an automobile
driven by kinnan. The boys leg was
broke.
Judgment For Mrs. Huber.
Judgment in the sum of s72S.49 in
favor of F. E. Northup, administrator
of the estate Of Karl Huber, sometimes
| called Charles Huber, was rendered
Tuesday in the case of Mrs. Anna
Huber versus the New York Life In
! surance Company, ct al. Suit was filed
| to collect on a life insurance policy
Karl Huber. an absentee, has been de-
| clared legally dead.
| Judgment for $4465 on a promissory
note also was rendered to the Spauld-
! ing Manufacturing Company, Of Grin
| nell, against Florence Grams.
| Four Wives Granted Divorces.
4 DEGREES in divorce were granted tc
four wives, the defendant husbands in
the four cases not appearing to con-
test the suits. The DEGREES were tt
Mrs. Hilda Hanson, from Robert Han
son: Mrs. Marie Anna Seidell, from
John ,Seidell: Mrs. Belle Asher, from
WILDER NJ. Asher, and Mrs. Blanch'
Egrmayer from G. w. Egrmayer.
The divorce action of Mrs. Maize M
Smith versus Alfred G. Smith was dis
missed at the plaintiffs costs.
Litigants Reach Settlement.
Settlements were made in the cas-
of o. L. Ingledue versus the Iowa Rail
way and Light Company; Oppice Frui
Company versus the Chicago Grea
Western railroad; John Sassen versa!
Harry Jansen, and the Industrial Rice
Mill versus the Western Grocer Com
pany.
The suit of Matilda Davis versu
Ida Sandstrom Day was dismissed a
the plaintiffs costs, and an actor
brought by the Conrad State Banl
versus Ida NJ Wiley was dismissed AM
attachment released.
Suit filed by Sadie Davis versa
Walter D. Hines. director general o
railroads, and the Wabash railroad,
garnishee action to collect judgmen
for S45 obtained by the plaintiff agains
less Davis, was settled and dismissed.
Keller Will Probated.
The will of Henry F. Keller. VIII