Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-16
SUPERIOR COURT,
JUDGE LOOMS.
The Norris In;xncf;o,,

AHe 1h0s7aS 1a1uncti0n.
 The injunction brought by Mir. David Benton and others to prevent payment by the town of Morris of their railroad sub. scription, came to trial in the Superior Court, on Friday last. The only oral evi- dence offered by the petitioners referred to an alleged defective notice of the Town Meeting which voted the subscription of Morris to the Shepaug Valley Railroad. It was claimed that the notices in two Schoo Districts were not posted in season. There was considerable conflicting evidence on this point. but Mir. D. W. Wagoner, then selectman, swore positively to having him. self posted the notices in due time. There are probably questions arising upon the taxpayers petition which will come up in argument.
 The respondents offered the following evidence regarding the condition of the Shepaug Valley Railroad company:
 MT. Perkins, President of the Company, testified that the cash subscription to the capital stock of the company was $4O4, ,OOO; of which the town subscriptions constitu- ted$214, 800. Contracts had been made for the grading and masonry of the road, and the bulk of the ties had been contracted for. About $112.00G had been paid in of the $1l8.OOO due, nearly all the deficit con- sisting of the Morris subscription. .
 MT. Samuel Stevenson, Chief Engineer of the road, testified that he had made two careful surveys of the road and careful estimate of the cost of its construction, that the contracts had been made under his supervision, that the work had been pushed on rapidly and that owing to the favorable weather of last fall so much had been done that there was no doubt that by the 1st of May they could begin to lay the iron. He testified that about eleven miles, in all, of the road had been constructed and was ready for the ties, that the entire right of way had been deeded to the com pany over the whole route, with the excep- tion of four or five pieces, and that they had not been obliged to call out appraisers in single instance. -s......-.. 1 It might be further slated that the Rail- road Commissioners were here on Thurs day last, accepted the location and lay out of the road, and that no one appeared to make any objection.
 l The argument of the case was postponed two weeks, till the 24th inst.
 State vs. Luther S. Porter's Liquors.
 This case was tried on Friday of the week before last, but press of matter on- ly left us space in our last for brief state- ment of the result. It came to this Conrt l on an appeal from the decision of Justice Hiram Pierce, of Thomaston, con6soating the liquors which were seized, under the prohibitory law.
 It appeared in evidence that Mir. Porter kept an ordinary country store, with med icines at one end. and 8 bar and the de- canters returned by the officer as seized, at the other. One sale was testified 10 as having occurred while the officers were there. Other sales during the months previous to the seizure were also proven. One of them was a sale of cherry rum to lad about r years old. It also appears that Mir. Porter and the other liquor deal CTS were waited on by committee appoint ed by the citizens of Plymouth, and re- quested to stop the illegal sale of intoxiea, ting drinks. MT. Porter decided not to comply with that request. No testimony was offered on the part of the defendant.
 The case was argued by Hubbard and the States Attorney for the State; and by Fenn and Graves for the defendant. The defence, in argument, seemed to be the necessity of supplying the inhabitants of Plymouth with intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes, and the bad conduct of the committee. The jury, under the law and testimony, did the only thing they I could do without perjuring themselves that is, they brought in verdict confisca- ting the liquors. l An attempt was made by the defense to make use of plea of abatement that was over-ruled by the Justice, raising the ob- jection that the officer making the seizure was not duly qualified. The Court deci ded that they could not go into that matter.
 For the State-State's Attorney, Hub bard and Fyler; for defendant-Graves, Seymour and Fenn. s-n TEMPERANCE MEETING AT NEW 1 MILFORD.
 A grand temperance mass meeting will