, 1864-01-05
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Inauguration Of the Few. Rules
CASE OF BoYDEs vs.. WENTWORTH.
Abe Northwestern University not Sectarlan
Institution.


CIRCUIT CouRT.-Ihe wheels Of onr 1egal ms.
chinery. somewhat rusty BY disnse through the
holidaYe, began to run slowly and with considera.
bic creAkfng In the various Courts yesterday The
day was eiEnaled In the Circuit Co1t Is being the
first Of netaai practice under the new rules. =,
A. the effect Of these rules. the term opens with
caeee, instead OF with general docket Of from
sass. p actual taq9gir3t ~ and that The general
obliged to PLAY hide and seek with the business Of
the tenn had It adhered to its old rules, contains
seyen hundred and eighty eight cases or about siI
docket. Of the csses on tie trtal docket, The
Court has declared Its intention to call eight each
day. Below, those interested will find the cases
ment OF the Court. The call Of the trial docket,
Including tho first eight CAGES, begins this morn.
As an clucldatlon Of the manner in which the
rcw rules nse TO be construed and administered,
We allude to a motion made before Judge Williams
yesterday, moving to strike case fr6m the trial
Jet been settled. Under the rule, as counsel con
tended, no case was entitled to be put On the
docket until the issues Of fact were made up. The
all the Old cases. and directed that the case with
reference to- which the motion was made to be
atzuck from the docket accordingly.
.urer Of the county Of Cook, against John Went
worth, the plaintiff had declared on IN article a.
NbeIl0uB, which appeared In the old Chicago Dem
commenced, corruption Corruption Rasca,::::y
in high places !" aud continued IN strain OF &C.
Gu: alton against tho County Tteasusers In the
county had Its little Natteson, &c, SC.
1t is alleged By the defense that the first time
the words :" County Treasulers' were used in the
BY accident, % az to mike 1t appear to be direct
attack upon The then Treasurer of Cook county.
ufz: A. Il. Doyden. It is also alleged on the samo
as q Si posn o sSe saoo oa La
been ht7uck OF, and wAs theq Immediately co.,
TIE declaration was dcmnrred to, on the ground
that It did not appear hom 1ta allegations, taken
In connection with the article exhibited in the
decla1ations that the article was aimed at the
sitting as juror, be might conclude that It was not
the intention OF the article to make any d,rect at-
tack upon the Treasurer of Cook county; still, sit
ter Of law. The question whether the plaintiff
was the person fibelled, provided the allegations
OF the declaration were properly made, one OF fact
aud two days were allowed defendant to plead.
Gallup & Hitchcock for the plaintiff; Hoyne, MIL
icr & Lewis for the deienee.
bell. defendant had bought ofp'aintifa . warehouse
receipt for ten thousand bushels Of corn and had
given check for that amount. bnt had stopped
money. In tho declaration fled in the case, three
counts In detenue for the receipt were Joined with
three in Gebt, Dcmq!1eIs for various 1easoas
ain, n9nc n9 tne Miijer IewIs or eienaant
II In the samo court IN The case Of Tie Northwest-
err T;nye1sitv "a Wrirht drieniant resisted nv
me,t of note, given ior the education of hia son,
rhe hsd aereeI viii
art nlIcced the contrary to be the case. Dur1nv
the trial, Judge Goodrich Was produced a. . Wit
ness Oh tehnlf Of the plaintiff, md testified that
aithoagh the University was in lie hands
hf h1HtEnd1Et
use The language Of tho Court it was
inasiono, the pupils were leit FREQ to attend
what church or emb. acc what tenets they please
no systematic efforts being mnde BY the govern.
nent Of the Institution to mould the belief Of the
scge. ~ 6'~'-'S''' - ''@~
srisl, Tie court declded tlat the Northwestern Gni
vcrsity wae not secf0Fian istituion In the sense
in which that tern. was used by the defendant
and The agent OF tho plaintiff 1t tho time the uofe
was vas RI ciyen. % - ~ t'-'@ - ''t' ''t'&' '''~ ''S'~
SuFAR1or CoUET-BtEp7e ,Judae NIlsou,-Frou
The snuerior Court, il ehanccry. an injqnctou has
been issued and served On j. I. Campbell. Iii
nrintera and nnhlfAher T. R Walsh teu,nornrily
pprohibit!ne prtaH tie he pub1icaon M of NV Guids
anI Hnndbook Of fdahos nrenarrd hy thn Faji
| Csn,nbell. The in,unctIon wna issued at The in
sfsrtc Of former nartner Of Camnbell vic
Gains IN Interest n the publication. As the booa
tme i'm Ills vii sspIsin Why il oes pet appesr
r ~ nai thap pcrert cour. toaav
! l-Hildebrand rs. Lili; e-WaTdett rs. Denni
se w. cnson; % Wash rs. :Ti TVo9siy; 6cshores IS
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bomas 51n1ns I5nSs1 Jnace LION
ase ed as B ag Ia
tam. aoe ~ 1'"'' Ao s'''e s'1''nuse - ns1
6S8-Rose "a. Root at ri. Jndpmeut r.acate,
and a new tlial granted under the siatute.