Indiana Asbury Female College vs. Edward Cooper

First day of the trial: This was a suit brought before Jared C. Jocelyn, J. P. of this county by the Trustees of the above named institution to receive possession of the College Building, they alleging that Mr. Edward Cooper was unlawfully detaining the same....said plaintiff avers that to induce them to grant said lease the defendant represented to the trustees of said College that he was solvent and possessed ample capital and means to furnish the college building on said lot, and to carry on and conduct the college on said premises in an advantageous and proper manner; and plaintiff avers that said representations were false and fraudulent, said defendant being then wholly insolvent, and without means as represented by him, and but for said representations said plaintiff would not have granted said lease. And said plaintiff also avers that said defendant did not in accordance with the stipulations contained in said lease conduct and manage said college in a suitable or proper manner as an institution of learning; but by his general bad conduct and his neglect and refusal to pay teachers employed in said institution, and to pay for the necessary furniture, instruments, apparatus, and other articles necessary in carrying on such an institution, and by his fraudulent conduct in getting more notes and signatures under false pretences, and by fraudulently giving checks on banks and insurance offices for money, when he had no money in any of said institutions, he brought said college into disrepute with the public, as an institution of learning...more than half of said pupils left said college before the close of its last session...[The Tribune reported the daily happenings for the ten days of the trial. On Aug. 13 pg. 3 col. 1 they reported that the jury stated that it was impossible for them to agree, and asked to be discharged. The court discharged them and continued the case until the first Monday in Sept. 1853.]