Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-08
THE COURTS.

CIRCUIT CoURT.-W. G. Turner VS.. T
Austin, nominal damages mentioned ia dec
laration and the estate returned to be re
turned to plaintiff.
@. M. Wiseman, ex'r., vs.. J. NJ. Murrell
evidence and argument heard, and jury vii
be charged on Monday.
James Lowell, VS.. f. Fl. French, ct ais
pending.
PROBATE CoURT.-R. n. Richards wa:
appointed and qualified as administrator Of
Morris Green, colored. tI.sf 81.
Law CoURT.-John OILY VS.. Jesse War.
rem, judgment for defendant. 7a-
The case of Sam1 T. Widener VS.. Theo.
Westmoreland, evidence being heard.
Judge Guild being incompetent in the case
Judge Harrison was appointed special
Judge, with a special jury composed Of
commercial men. 1t is case of very con-
siderable Importance, involving the pur-
chase of a lot of mules from plaintiff,
amounting TO something like $500, by a
party who il is claimed by the plaintiff in
this case, was partner in the transaction
with defendant. The mules were purchas.
ed on time, and the party who did the
trading was killed, and the purchase money
has not yet been paid. Gov. John. G.
Brown, ex-Gov. Neil S. Brown, and Judge
A. L. Demoss appear as counsel for tie de-
PENDANT, and Judge Guild, Judge Shackle-
ford, and Col. Baxter Smith for the plaintiff.
CRIMINAL C0URT.-State VS.. Cad Per
kins, larceny; found guilty and jury fixed
term of Imprisonment at three years in the
penitentiary. In another charge of larce-
ny against same defendant the case was
given to jury, who failed to agree State
VS.. Allen Robertson, horse stealing; Jury
was partially selected, when the Court ad-
journed.
CHANCERY CoURT.-The only business
of interest in this Court yesterday was that
which referred to the case Of Y. <. Steven
son and Ben. May VS.. Nashville
aud North western Railroad Co. ct
ais. In this cause the Clerk and
Master having been directed to report the
amount due each complainant, calculating
interest on each cupon from the time it fell
due to this date, the Clerk and Master made
said report showing that there was due on
first of June 1872, to V. x. Stevenson $780,
O87.73, and also due to other complainant
Ben May OF same date S31, 1893. A.
1t was ordered by the Chancellor that said
report be confirmed, and it was further Or
dered, adjudged and decreed that the COM
plainants severaly receive Of the defendant,
the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
Company the sums so reported in favor Of
each, with interests and costs, and that the
said defendants pay the same to the said
compliments as they are severally entitled,
or into court for them within thirty days
from the rendition of this decree, and in
case of failure so to 1.-THE Clerk and Master
of the court will, as and for the defendants,
Ewing, Bass and Thompson,i as Trustees
under the mortgage of the said defendant,
proceed to foreclose the said mortgage by a
sale of the entire roadway of said defend
ants road in this State and in the State of
Kentucky for the benefit of all the holders of
the mortgage bonds secured thereby, in &C
cordance with the provisions of said mort
gage deed. And at the request of the com
plainants It is further ordered that the sale
be made on a credit of six, twelve, eighteen
and twenty four months, free from the
equity Of redemption, the purchasers being
required to pay five thousand dollars
in cash to cover costs and reasonable
counsel fees of the compliments counsel,
and to give notes with good security in
four equal instruments upon the credits
aforesaid for the residue of the purchase
money, and lien retained for their pay
ment on the property sold. The sale to be
made subject to the prior lien of the State
as set forth in the former decree.