Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-22
THE COURTR.

| CRIMINAL COURT.-State vs.. Rufus
Petty, colored, larceny; verdict of guilty
and term of Imprisonment fixed at two
years in the Penitentiary.
State VS.. VIM. Brown, colOred, larceny;
verdict of guilty and term of imprisonment
| fixed at six years.
The court then adjourned to Saturday.
CHANCERY CoURT.-The State Railroad
Commissioners yesterday submitted re-
port to the Chancery Court with reference
to the sale of the Nashville and Northwest
ern Railroad to the Nashville and Cbatta-
nooga Railroad Company for the sum Of ST.
400 900, and Of this amount 100000 has
been paid in bonds of the State, which report
of the sale of the road, and its property and
franchises, was confirmed by the
Chancellor. Iu this report the Commits
sioners say that the litigation pending at
the date of said sale, with the stockholders
and mortgage bondholders of the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad Company, by
writ of error in the Supreme Court Of the
State, and by bill in the United States
Circuit Court, have been compromised and
settled, the writs of error dismissed, and
the litigation in the United States Court
terminated, so that the purchasers and
Commissioners were able to consummate
the sale. The concluding portion Of the
decree is as follows:
And it appearing to the satisfaction of
the Court that the sale reported has been
made in strict accordance with the DEGREES
of this Court, and the acts of tho General
Assembly in that behalf; and it further ap-
pearing from their admission in open court
that the counsel for the State are of opinion
that the right of the Nashville and North
western Railroad Company to build a
branch road from Huntingdon TO Jackson,
fairly and properly passes under the genera
sale as made and reported without any re-
sponsibility on the part of the State in rela-
ton thereto, it is ordered, adjudged and
decreed that all the right, title, claim and
interest of all the parties to this suit
In and TO the Nashville and North
western Railroad, its property and
franchises, including the right
to build said branch road from Huntingdon
to jackson without any responsibility on
the part Of the State, be and the same are
hereby Invested out Of them and vested in
the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company in absolute right, with all the
rights and privileges as heretofore deter
mined by the DEGREES Of this court in this
cause to belong To the purchasers of the
roads sold Hereunder, subject to the lien Of
the State for the purchase money remaining
unpaid under the contract of sale, and to
such conditions and obligations as are pro-
vided for in said contract, if any, and such
as may have been stipulated for and under
taken in the proceedings and DEGREES in this
cause.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
This court was on a general wind up bust
ness yesterday, preparatory TO adjournment
today. A motion was made in arrest of
Judgment in the case of the United States
Us Gloon, against whom was rendered at
term verdict of guilty, on an in
alleging pension frauds, etc. The
court reserved its opinion in relation to the
motion until to-day. A white man from
charged with miseegenation,
was brought before the court on writ of
babeas corpus, and argument therein
heard.