Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-06-24

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ing to contract, and yet compelled them
against their protest to paint aud deliver
them in too short time. Verdict for
defendants.
State rs. John Stanton. Indictment
for peddling without license. Verdict
guilty. Fined $50 and costs.
Guy b. Walker Us. Walter Taylor
For the plaintiff, Deane & Seaver, For
the defendant, Mr.. Stoughton and Mr.
Converse. Action of assumpsit on gem
eral account. Plea, non-as umpsit. In
1864, plaintiff, young man living with
his father IN Springfield, went to Rock
ingham to enlist into the United States
service, for doing which to the credit of
Rockingham he was to receive $780,
He gave to defendant a power Of attor-
ney to draw his bounty, which he did,
and now plaintiff brings suit to recover
a balance of SITS, which he claims de-
PENDANT has never paid over to him. I'm
der rulings of the Court. verdict was
rendered for defendant.
Dean Cabot Us. Thomas Christie. For
plaintiff Mr.. Paul and Mr.. Denison.-
For defendant Converse & French. This
case was originally tried at the May
term, 1868, when verdict was render
ed for the defendant. 1t was carried up
ON exceptions and remanded for a new
trial. Defendant sold his farm at South
Woodstock to plaintiff for $4,000, repre-
senting it by advertisement and other
wise to contain $50 acres. The farm
actually contains but 1T acres and
some rods, and plaintiff, claiming that it
was virtually warranted to him, brings
this suit to recover damages for the diff
ference. The defendant claims that he
did not warrant the farm to contain 1870
acres, but sold it in lump, supposing it
to contain about that Verdict Cor
plaintiff, damages s446 and costs.
Eva Brown per procien ami u.s. Hor-
ace and Sophia Paddleford. Action for
trespass. For the plaintiff Converse &
French. For the defendantC. P. Marsh
and S. NJ. Pingree. The plaintiff, a
young girl some thirteen years of age,
residing in the family of Alvah Benja-
min, in Hartland, and it seems in 1868
she went to his pasture to pick strawber-
ries, and found there boy two or three
years her junior, child of the defendants
and shook or whipped him and chased
him home across the pasture When
near his fathers house Mrs. Paddleford
came out, caught the girl, and punished
her for her treatment of the boy. Be,
tween the two families there had been an
i'll feeling for years, and out of it doubt
less grew the assault of the girl upon the
boy and of Mrs. Paddleford upon the
girl. The plaintiff claims damages fol
the assault, alleging injury to her health
from which at this day she has not fully
recovered, while the defendants insist
and offered evidence to show that the
plaintiffs claim is groundiess and thai
the action is simply an attempt to extort
money. Defendants acknowledge the
assault upon the girl, but deny that they
are liable except for nominal damages
The case excited considerable interest, a:
Drs. Phelps of Windsor, Allen and Ten
ney of Hartford, Richmond of Hartlanc
and Richmond of Woodstock, were pu
on the stand and all testified that they
believed the claim of the girl put.up
affair. Verdict for the plaintiff. Dam
ages $50.
Edward M. Lewis Us. George w. Kib
bling. Defendant, claiming that Their,
is highway to the river past the abut
ment of the Norwich and Hanove
bridge, went there to obtain logs belong
ing to him which were in the river
Plaintiff denied his right to do so aht
fenced up the passage. The fence wa
torn down by defendant, and this actio,
is for the purpose of testing the right o
defendant and the public to the premi
SEES. Verdict for plaintiff. Damages 81
cents and costs.