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First Law Case Jury In 2 Years Chosen At Vinton, Then Discharged Special to The Gazette. VINTON—For the first time in nearly two years a jury was summoned Monday in district court here to try an assignment of law cases, the first assignment in the April term of court, at which Judge B. O. Tankersley of Marshalltown is presiding. A jury was selected Monday morning to hear the case of Stauffer vs. Flickinger, et al, but efforts toward a settlement were then begun and late in the afternoon a compromise was reached and the jury was discharged. In this case, which was appealed by the plaintiff from a justice court decision, George T. Stauffer of Garrison sought to eject Mr. and Mrs. Dale Flickinger from an eighty acre farm two miles southwest of Garrison which Stauffer purchased last winter. The Flickingers rented the farm in 1933 of the receiver for the Garrison Savings bank, and claimed to have a verbal agreement with the receiver for renting the place in 1934. Later the farm was taken over by the Union Central Life Insurance company of Cincinnati, and on Feb. 1, 1934, the insurance company notified the Flickingers that Stauffer held title to the farm and wanted them to vacate by March 1. Citing their rent contract with the bank receiver and the fact that they had planted thirty of the eighty acres last fall, the Flickingers won a decision in the justice court of J. A. Ruhl. In the settlement reached late Monday the Flickingers will receive the sum of $178 and will vacate the farm. Among the other matters disposed of by Judge Tankersley Monday was the signing of an order authorizing the payment of a third 10 per cent dividend by the receiver for the Iowa Savings bank of Vinton. A divorce was granted to Mrs. Elsie Backus, 20, from Richard Backus, 23. The plaintiff was granted the right to resume her maiden name of Elsie Patton, and also to remarry at any time. She is at present living at Malcom, Ia., and the defendant is living in Minnesota.