Suit Follows Shooting

Article taken from The Massillion Independent, August 2, 1906

Portsmouth, O., Aug.1 - A $15,000 damage suit was fuled in common pleas court by John Dever against his brother, Solomon Dever. The suit is the result of a recent shooting affray in which John Decer was short and permanently maimed by his brother, the culmination of a bitter quarrel at a meeting of the Harrisonville school board.