Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-24
THE COURTS.
COURT Is GENERAL TKsx,


The court was in session to-dAy-J adses
Cartier, DIN, Wylie, and Macarthur.
A WILL CASE.
The case OF Rebecca j. Abbott Ashby azt
Ferdinand Butler, was argued by Mrs. Lock
wood for CON rlainsnt, and Mr.. W. j. Miller for
oefendant. The plaintiff filed bill In equity
Claiming as heir AZ law of Richard Abbott and
Elizabeth ABBOTT, bis only child now deceased
certain real estate. Judge Wyiie heard the
case on bill OF answer and deposit lions, and dis
missed the bill for want OF jurisdiction and
without prejudice, and from this decree com
plslnant appealed. 1t appears that Joseph
Abbott died in April. 1861. aud left q
Wul,~ one clause OF which reads: eft nv
said son, Richard, shall die leaving a
Child or children living at his death give ar 4
devise TO such child or children and their heirs
as tenants in common, sIl the real estate here
lnbeiore devised ID mig said son for life; aud il
my said son shall leave any child which shall
Ole leaving child or children, then such child
or chiiaren OF a deceased child living a. the
death OF my said son, shall stand in its or their
parents place and stead, ami have the same
share and interest in said real est ate its or their
parents would have been entitled to if then liy-
ing But If my said son shall die without lear-
ing issue living at his death, then give nm I
devise the real estate hereinbefore devised to
my said son for life, to my said granddaughter
and her heirsi and if my said grauddsughre
shall die Without leaving issue living az her
death, then give and devise said lot mum,
bered one, ID in square numbered DDS, and the
aoJolnlng part OF lot m inferred ?, in said square
her6inbefoTe devised To her, to nv said sou
Richard aud his heirs, and If my said son and
SAID granddaughter shall both die in the life.
!ine o. SAD wife without leaving issue living at
theiT death respectively, then give aud de wise
to my said wife and her heirs all said re Al estate
here nbetOre devised to nv said son for liFs
ana sad lot numbered one, U,) in square NAM
Dered rs, and adjoining Fart of lot numbered
TWO, u IN said square hereinbefors d evils al to
my said granddaughter" And it IL ON this
clause the case turns.
POLICE COUET-Judge Sell.
TO day, james Brown, a col0Ted oystsrmsn
who tTayels about with a tin bucket aud horn
was ETraigned on the charge of selling unsounJ
oysters In violation OF the ordinances OF the
Board Of Health. Officer ID ysOn testified tn at
LADY Oh Vermont avenue purch 3sed some OF
Brown, and was at once made very sick ami
remains so this morning. He arrested hun aud
examined bis bucket, and found the contents in
state of fermentation. The Judge imposed a
fine Of So The case Of DIR. Aaron W. Miller
charged with refusing to register his name in
tne BOOKS OF the Board OF Health, was con-
uhued until Saturday for hearing. JAMES
Brian, charged with larceny of fractional cur
rehcy from store OF It'll street, amounting to
about 81; fined so or sixty days in jail. John
Marshal, larceny OF two boxes of cigars; $50 or
sixty days IN jail Singleton Jones was sent TO
the reform school for larceny of a silver watch.
Daniel Webster, cOloIed. larceny of a bag of
corn worth forty cents, taken from the field of
a gentleman in the county; fired $50, or sixty
days in jail. George Kuppel. assault and
battery on Richard Hill; IS and costs
William Jones WAS fined 50 for cursing. James
Brown, loud and bOsterOus; SIS. Martin
McNulty, cUrsing; s.. Catharine McNulty,
same charge; 81. Alice Hamfat, cursing In
Fighting alley; SS. John Ware, profanity; So.
Charles Anderson, same; 80. George Watson,
loud and bOisterOus; IS. Rufus Bean, carving
a pistol; $50. Anna Corbin, throwing stones
3. Howard W. Tuckson, loud and bois,
ferrous. SIS.
TOO LIGHT a PUNISHMENT.
VIM. Alexander, cOlOred, charged with indie
cent exposure in the county. The testimony of
some school girls was very damaging. Officer
MeGraw testified that the parents of girls in
the neighbOrhOod were afraid to let them 90
from their homes for this scamp. Tie iud "a
imposed - fine-tne extent of the law, and re-
quired him to give $40 bonds for good behavior,
in default of which he was sent TO the chain
gang for sixty days. Ann Murphy, profane and
indecent language; IS.