The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-24
LEGAL 1MTHLLIGHNCu
Nisi Prfus-C Chief Justice Thompson.
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In the case OF Prentiss vs.. Ths Great Western
Railway Company ct al, Chief Justice Thompson
this morning made the following order:-
Now, February "a, 1870, this case came on to he
heard on exceptions heretofore filed by leave OF
court; to wit, on the sth day OF February, 1870 by
Esq, to the lease heretofore authorized to be exc.
cuted by the Receiver, Hon. Reuben Hitchcock, OF
OF January, 1870, and was argued BY
counsel on said exceptions, and Oh testimony
Court for that purpose t. in support of and against
said exceptions, and 1t Is now here considered ad-
Judged, ordered, and decreed that the said excep-
tons so filed as Aforesaid be and they are hereby
severaiy overruled and dismissed at the cost OF the
exceptants, and the said lease is approved to stand
with the said notifications not embraced in
paragraph, the last but one in said
oss Of the Atlantic and Ges
Western Railway Company, or any trustee, etc. etc.,
N. Robinson OF New York, counsellors- -at-aw, as
arbitrators, to hear and determine under and pur-
suant to the statutes OF the State of New York. re-
latve TO arbitratons, be stricken out and that the
words at the end Of the fifth preceding paragraph
viz, by the arbitraors, as hereinafter provided be
also stricken out and the words Eat law or in equity"
Ridgway & Lewis vs. Atkins Bros. An action
to recover for patent doorframe for furnaces
sold and delivered. Before reported Verdict for
plaintiffs $953.
Court of Quarter Sessions--Judge Ludlow.
Jefferson X. Williams, President of the Con-
servatory of Music In Walnut street, above
Tenth, was this morning tried for an indecent
assault upon two OF his pupils, boys twelve or
fourteen years old. The facts were uncontra-
dicted, but SO indecent as to prohibit their pub
lication In our columns. After hearing the in
structions of the Court, the jury retired to de-
liberate, and at the close OF our report had not
agreed.
District Court, No. I-Judso Hare.
Edward Shippen VS.. The City. Case SUBJ
mitted without defense, and verdict for plain
tiff $91.67.
Same, trustee, VS.. Same. Verdict for plaintiff
$295'37.
Same, trustee, VS.. Same. Verdict for plaintiff
$464'25
William Dunlap VS.. George Campbell. An
action TO recover damages for injuries to plain
tiff's horse that was stabbed with defendant and
alleged to have been SO carelessly treated as to
render him useless. On trial.
District Court No. 2-JudRe Stroud.
Fanny Lockhart VS.. Samuel Cooper. Al
| action to recover damages for an alleged breach
| of marriage promise. The plaintiff, seamstres
| by trade, set forth that the defendant paid con
| stant attention to her for two years; made low,
| to her, and finally, one evening, as they wer,
| walking home from neighbors, he took frou
| his pocket small Bible and upon it swore, will
all the bright hosts of the armament twinkling
blinking, and winking at him, that h
| hand hers pressing on, he exactet
from her similar pledge, saying they wer
| then ''as good as married." A few evening
after he asked her for the loan OF $780, whicl
she declined TO make, saying that after the,
had been duly united in the holy bonds the
would run a partnership business and the
they fixed day in April last for the happ
| event. In the meantime he looked about fo
stores but none Of his selection suited her, an
at length he became weary of the whole affair
| threw up the sponge, said he had changed hi
mind and gave her notice to seek another
For this breach of faith the lady seeks by thi
action 10 be compensated. On trial