, 1872-10-29
THE LAW COURTS.


THE LAW COURTS.
49,. NOTES OF: INTEREST.
Henry B. Goodrich, Walter Wright, and Tim.
othy Wright, bring return in the Circuit Court
against Grant Goodrich, John S. Wright, the
Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Company,
Joseph n. Bracket, and J. Young Scammon. Or
the 26th April, 1857, John S. Wright was owner
Of the N. e of Section 8, Township 81 North: ot
deed thereof to Grant Goodrich Cdeed Of trus:
With power Of aale) to secure the payment Of in
debtedness then existing on the part Of said
Wright to plaintiffs in this suit, as
veil as for his indebtedness to other
parties IN various notes, On which plnintiH had
become liable as endorsed; said trust deed being
intended onlyto convey said, property to said
Grant Goodrich IS q pledge and trust with
which to pay, or secure the payment ot, all such
debts made By said Hy. B. Gopdach on: behalf
Of said Wright. Under this arrangement, Wal
ter 8. Wright, in 1857, drew bills Of s., 900,
8. Wright endorsed BY plaintiff, ana delivered
to ssid John s. Wright to be used BY
elect, the parties being held secuted
from loss by said trust deed. In February, 1887
these tMn :Wrights issued joint note to said
Hr. B. Goodrich, st nine months, and on June
10. 1657, two joint notes, which were followed
By number Of others: al under the sane ar-
rangement. John s. Wright cashed each of
these drafts, at par. but failed to provide for any
presented to the two plaintiffs already named,
one or other Of whom paid them as they fell
due. AL Of said notes we're destroyed in the
October fire. The total amount paid, as here de-
scribed. was a40: SIS Of which John s. Wright has
repaid nothing. Petitioners ellega their belief
TINT !he Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock
Company is in possession. Of q portion Of the
said tract Of land, and that Joseph " Bracket
also claims An interest in s portion, and pray
that they be made defendants therein, The
petitioners give a list Of them. They a1lege,
elso that The sum Of $500 600, in the auitc1eim
deed Of John S. to Walter 8. and Timothy
Wight, mentioned as the amount paid, vas not
= resi- consideration. End was never paid; and
that John Young Scammon received q deed Of
ment Of 10-yea bonds by the said Dock and
Canal Cp1hpany; and they pray that he may be
made e party defendant. They further pray
that the parties be summoned to appear ia
the premises; that an account may be taken OF
the rarions amounts paid, and by whom paid,
thereunaer; and that the property be sold, and
the trust finally discharged.
Another hdbau corpus case, in which father
eeels the custody Of his child, has come up in
the Crtnit Court, in many respects similar
+ 3 ] assd siat0h It aaveP tsas Of 'aGs e.
tssasi naa piabHahed H in TEE 'R FnnusE at the
time. Ia this instance, petitioner -af1rma that
he wa4 formerly resident Of Council Bluffs,
Iowa there he married and lived till the var,
when be served in the Union army as soldier.
The raalt OF the marriage was q child, whom
thay clristened Mary, who is now Is years of
ege. Liter the termination OF the war the fam
IL removed to: Chicago, where they remained
some tine; petitioner being abnent from tie sity
tba mother and child went to board
ct He house i. Of Cornelius s. Her.
bert. md Just at that time petitioner went
South, where he remained long time. On his
return TO this city, he found h's wife deaa, and
his chid, as be asserts, compulsoEly detained
at He1aert'e house. He Gays that be has made
frequent application tor her to Herbert, who
absolutely and positively refuses to Let her go.
The pmyer Of the petitioner, that the CHILD be
Eurren1e1ed to the custody OF the Court, for
trial Of the case, is granted
An siaayit Of 1ym.: F. Keep, one Of the cred
itors whu are petitioning for the bankruptcy Of
II. ". Taylor l. Co., in which case an injunction
vas Issued. has been fled, to the effect that
neither books, invoices, or papers OF any Kind,
connected with the business, can be found also,
that firTIT1pA EATH IH94DE lUuk LuG DOCha Will
him to Rhode Island that Taylor absconded
from ST. Annes On the 18th Of October, instant
Tint Cannon has control over all the papers,
notes. and evidence at Indebtedness, and other
wise. .ofsaid firm TWAS yesterday ordered that the
time allowed to the creditors, to file their bond,
be extended till Wednesday morning ut 10
o'clock. -
4 sunplaneutary petition By Dunham d Co.
VAS fled IN the bankruptcy OF Brown Parker,
No. $50 Hubbard street, yesterday, and war-
Petitioners nate that these debtors owe them
notes amoun6ug to s7e6.42; that they have re-
moved their property to the residence Of one
Mrs Brown, With the intent to deffaud their
creditors that they have closed their store, Civ
ing trhat they are insolTent, and that they
are in the act Of transferring their remaining
goods to pisces where it Will be impossible to
FOLLOW and recover.
Jansa Lang; assignee Of the Equitable Insur-
ance C9nip,ny of Chicago, petitions the United
States piseiet Court to have an acconnt. taken
Of the fnontary transactions between the Com
pany 14d samuel Hoard. The petitioner has
found II almost impossible to obtain q list at the
etockhdldes in the Company, and all other
rneans k7nt1 ~ the examination Of witnesses,
both bcas and insurers, having failed to elicit
ne {s dAatd information, he nov alleges
in the C mpany to the extent OF $4,000, for
which AZ oant it is thought the Company held
his note, among others, and praEa that he be re-
qn1re4 % supply an account. Petitioner desires
that Roard may be examined on oath IS to the
amou1t he has paid to the Company, the amount
recei iqed, the amount due, AID SO forth. II the
plan succeeds, way may be found Of opening
this large Monetary stock oyster which has so
long been obstinstely ehut despite almost every
trick, azti6ce, and threat knoFp to modern Law.
In the rather celebrated Law suit begun this
sscm in the Circuit Court Of John RyaR against