Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-05-27
THE COURTS.

COURT IN GENERAL TERM; -To-day, the ar
concluded and Judgmen, given for plaintiff.
Barrinser was, ON motion Of Gen. Mussey,
TIE B. 2. R. R., AND THE SIXTH pREsBYrERIAN
The case Of the sixth h' Presbyteri.n Church
the Baltimore and Potomac railroad was taken
~, Garfield and Gen. Mnssey for the plain.
b. rsccee,ed that .ome %ontSs :ines T shs
church instituted PROCEEDINGS to recover damages
c%pSs s and tSe Jury awaTdSd dsm.ses
for the aiirmsnee Of the award. This morning the
Dase S s ss and thu counsel for the
moved 10 strke the case from the calender, but they
award, and argued that they had the right to BRING
testimony before the court as to how the jury al
Judge Cartier stated that in his opinion the prop
cry mad been rendered useless a. house of worship
hell If YOU can besore To Se, IN the nrss Of
the mcti9n he stated thai the only question for
accordance with the testimony and if not, whether
Undue influence had been used
the by the Marshal and Rt tint sha
1 Warrant was irregular; and the Court oyerruled
The counsel proceeded TO prepare affiavits of
some ~ the Jurors 10 present tn the court, show
IN what manner they arrived at their conclusions.
CIRCUIT COURT, Judge Rumphrsys.-To-day,
CLARK agt Sick a stahl; certiori quashed Roche
agt. German.a Insurance company; judrment Of
Judgment for defendant Hall 4 Hall agt MAYOR
N; kaylor; lud gment for sIUO. Clark agt Nelson
TllGen agt: NIckerson; submitted udgn, NJ for de-
feidant Hndneil agt kimmell q Sweeney; YER.
dltt Tor defendant: Jones agt Shannon; Judgment
me mt set aside Siade ct al. agt. holland; on trial
POLlCE COURT, JNdgs Sasu-To-dav the casa
OF Ii nderhll, charged with forging tn. name
1i MS wife, was continued until tomorrow Vim
MhhoDey, charged with the larceny of n hen: nnIIe
pos; Henry Buck, assault on John II Childs;
nhed So Chas. N zee. trespass, (takif q sand from
The street } DR.. W. +. Wallace testified that the
~ aLd OF Public Works had given Nice a permit 10
dig but on the 18th of arch the board had revoked
lhe permit. The defendant claimed that he hal a
right to dig at the place under another order than
the one referred to. The case was continued until
Io-m9rfcw morning. p. Hart, yag-a ncy; bOnds or
McfkhouSe Spencer Carter, affray: fined SIS VIM
6 s array hnnd IS Anthony Moran, profanity;
Patrick Bnrk do; fined IS % T. Cant do; hned
50. james Edwards, do; SIS; collateral rf.jteI
Sophia Beatty, vagrancy; bonds or workhousa
Ssphia got 70 swearing in court and using Wi.
gar language, for which she was sent 10 lai a b,nr.
The case OF L. s. Donaldson, charged with renting
aroOh Iof gambling pur poses, called, bur sey-
erai OF IN. witnesses failed to answer. Mr. Miller
sad that he could not proceed in the absence of these
witnesses, and asked that the case be Confined
Mr +. +. Gloss, for the defendant, objected tn the
continuance of the case, and stated thai they hal
peen READY several times, and this would be the fifth
Poneinent The defendant was ready, and ii was
the faut Of the prosecution that the case had not
been heard The court ordered att achments to issue
Ior the witnesses who had not answered: and sail
the case would be continued til after the capases
nave been returned VIM. skeily, assault on Annie
peace: Mary Taylor, disordery, fined IS. Ella
washington, do, fined $40, Rachel Gsodall was
cnarged with being yagrsnt, aud broke out with
torrent OF the vest abuse, ana attem pted TO rump
over the rail Of the prisoners dock to the conrt
husfihd down stairs, and commitment male ont 70
wOrkhouse for 81 days WV ~