The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-07
LEGAL IrgTNI11GNMcE.
Court of Qunrter sessIons-Judge ludlow.

COurt of Quarter SessiOns-Judge Ludlow.
The time of this court this morning was mostly
occupied with swearing in and charging the
Grand Jury, calling the petit jurors, and re-
ceiying excuses exempting from serving as SUCH
THE GAMBLING-HoUsE CASE.
In the case of Theodore Lawrence who was
arrested for keeping gambling establishment
in Ranstead place. the bail of Henry Willbank,
residing at No. 94 Ridge avenue, was allowed
in the sum of $4,000.
supreme Court In Banc-Chief Justice Thomp-
WOOD.
The following judgments were given this
morning.
By Thompson, c. il
The Commonwealth vs. Three Barrels of Do
mestic Distilled Spirits.-In this case the Court
decided that whisky manufactured in a neigh
boring State, and merely rectifed in this Com
monweath, was not domestic distilled spirits
within the meaning of our statute, and therefore
not subject to our inspection laws The judg-
ment of the Common Pleas of Philadelphia was
affirmed.
Frick ct al. VS.. Barker, Semmes & Co. Error
to the Common Pleas Of Montgomery county.
Judgment affirmed
Spring Garden Insurance Company VS.. Jacob
Scott Appeal from the Nisi Prius. Judgment
reversed and Uentre de 1O0O awarded.
Parke's appeal from the Common Pleas of
Chester county. Appeal dismissed.
Wickersham's appeal. Appeal from the Or
phans' Court of Philadelphia. Decree affirmed.
by Read, it
6lDDOnB vs.. wallace et al. ErrOr 10 the COM
mon Pleas of Northumberland county. Judg-
ment affirmed
By Sharswood, j.
Kramer vs. Marks. Error to the Common
Pleas of Snyder county. Judgment affirmed.
Estate of James Brennan (Rush). Appeal
from the Orphans Court of Schuylkill county.
Decree reversed and record RENTED, with in
structions.
Lower Augusta township vs.. Selinsgrove.
Error to the Quarter Sessions OF Snyder county.
| Judgment affirmed.
Taylor vs.. Taylor. Error to the Common
| Pleas OF Chester county Judgment reversed
| ana judgment for the defendant on case stated.
Briggs vs.. Doibler. Appeal from the Common
| Pleas of Columbia county. Decree affirmed;
each party to pay his own costs upon their ap-
| peals. l..
The Schoeppe case was called for argument,
| but upon motion of Hon. w. b. Miller of Car
| lisle was postponed until tomorrow morning.
| THE SAFETY FUND CASE.
This morning the court was engaged with the
| argument of Vests appeal from the decision OF
| the Nisi Prius, which granted an injunction to
| restrain the Escheator-General from proceeding
| against the Philadelphia Safety Fund Society for
the escheat of large amount OF money mo & in their
| hands, said to reach the sum OF SAG, 600, which
| had at various times been deposited by persons
| who had died leaving no heirs; and the Common
wealth claims that as the society was merely the
| depositary of this money, acquiring no title
| therein, their reward for its custody being the
use OF it, the State beceme entitled to it as pro-
| perty for which no owner can be found.
! The society contends that 1t holds no more
| than its Just earnings and lewful surplus fund,
| and that the State has no right to come in and
seize this from its hands.