The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-04-19
GAME WARDEN SUIT
SETTLED WITHOUT
DECIDING ANYTHING
Only Three Cases go to Jury
at Spring Term; Others
Settled, Delayed
JURY DISMISSED FRIDAY
Case Was Expected to Deter
mine Rights of Game Ward
ems in Searching Cars

The widely publicized game warden
case which was to settle whether or
not conservation department officials
have a legal right to stop and search
cars on public highways ended alb
ruptly without settling anything
Thursday afternoon when an agree
ment was reached during recess in
district court. The amount of the
settlement was not announced but it
is reported to be small.
The four warden defendants, o. P.
Lofquist of Redwood Falls, r. R.
Whitney of Montevideo, Hans Nah
low of Olivia and D. P. Brady, dis
trict chief, We're the first witnesses
called. William D. Stewart. deceased
game and fish commissioner, was also
mentioned in the complaint filed last
fall.
The story was retold of the whole
sale arrests of violaters made here
October 20 when the pheasant season
was at its height. The plaintiffs,
w. J. North and his son, Thomas and
Edmund w. Miller, who were suing
for $1,000 each and a fourth party,
an attorney who was here as a wit
ness rather than a plaintiff, Frank
basketball Twin Citians-were in
car stopped that evening.
The st. Paul men contended they
were treated roughly, and detained
without right which was the basis of
the suit. They had been hunting at
the farm of a friend near Sayton
and were returning home when stop
ped.
On the stand that afternoon, Thorn
as North, who was driving, testified
that Warden Brady ordered him to
stop the car and that he asked to see
their hunting licenses. North declar-
ed that the other three men in the car
showed them their licenses but that
he did not show his until they were
taken to the Jail.
In this statement, his testimony
conficted with that of the four game
wardens, all of whom said that all
the men in the car refused to show
their licenses until taken to the Jail.
North testified that they had IL
. pheasants with them, which was the
legal limit for four hunters.
He said the men did not tell them
they were wardens but he admitted
that they were uniformed and that
they wore conspicuous badges.
DR.. Miller testified that he was
sleeping as they came into town and
did not awaken until someone opened
the door as they were stopped. He
was in the front seat with the driver.
He said that the men in the back
seat, Mr.. Haskell and the elder Mr..
North, showed their licenses before
they were taken to the Jail. He told
the court that they were made fun of
and Inundated by the crowd which
gathered around the car as the argu-
ment ensued. He charged that one of
the wardens-a tall slender one
called them names at the Jail.
No cause for action was the verdict
brought in by the jury at 2 p. m.
Thursday in the John Michael suit
against Victor Zimmerman of Nor
gan. Mr.. Michael of Jordan was SUI
ing Mr.. Zimmerman for $1,000 for in
juries, including the loss of his left
eye, received when his car and Zim-
A.nerman's truck crashed at Chaska
August s.
The third and last jury case be-
fore the jurors were dismissed Fri
day afternoon was suit brought by
Amelia Kopischke Billmeier of near
Clements against Andrew Tauer of
Morgan over $50 bill which the de-
PENDANT contended had been paid. Mrs.
Billmeier was awarded $50 and $2.19
interest by the jury.
The court term closed Tuesday af-
ternoon after hearing the divorce suit
brought by Mary Phyllis Grau against
Ernest F. Grau. Several other cases
were continued or settled out of
court.