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CIRCUIT COURT PROCEEDINGS OF INTEREST Judge Russell Heard Evi dence in Alleged Breach of Contract Case. OTHER HAPPENINGS Wife Is Granted Divorce on Grounds of Cruelty and Failure to Provide. Friday a number of witnesses and spectators were brought to Tipton by the trial of the action brought by the Dugger-VanZant Packing Company against Ray Brothers, local canning factory men. The action was one on al- leged breach of contract for failure of Ray Brothers to deliver tomatoes to the order of the Dugger VanZant Company and the company was suing for the loss occasioned by the alleged failure. There were a number of attorneys engaged in the case and the evidence regarding the matter was watched closely by both sides of the case, indicating that an appeal my be taken from the decision of the local court. At the conclusion of the evidence Judge Russell took the case under advisement, the parties having asked leave to file briefs and cite court decisions. In the action brought by John T. West against Newton V. Snodgrass and others to quiet title to real estate, the Court heard the evidence and granted the relief asked. H. E. Caster. special agent for the Department of Financial Institutions, who is in charge of the closed Farmers Staae Bank of Hobbs. was granted authority to apply rental from land held by the bank to the loan of the Prudential Insurance Company and to furnish the insurance company a varified copy of the proceedings. In the divorce proceedings of Claude Murphy against his wife Eleanora in which the wife had filed a cross complaint, the Court heard the evidence and granted the decree to the wife on the grounds of cruelty and failure to provide. The parties reside iin West Elwood. There were no children. Harry Johnson has filed an action against Frank Shuck and others in which he is asking judgment on a promissory note signed by the defendants. The defendant Shuck recently filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court at Indianapolis.