New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-08
CIVIL NOTES.

Judge Lawrence denied yesterday the mo-
ton the order OF arrest in the suit OF koebng
against Duncan, Sherman * 90.
The case of Gray against Green. tried last
Spring, was yesterday summed up before judge West
brook and submitted t. lin iOr decision.
The December term of the United States
Circuit Court criminal sde Judge Benedc, presiding
viii begin today. grand jury will DO mpaneed and
natteis oi considerable importance brought before IT,
Ia the United States District Court yesterday,
tho Government obtained judgment for s5.&l5 against
George ~ Cont. watch manufacturer. and his bonds
Goits bond f0r pa yment OF that amount for
enuc stamps furnished ON credit
The testimony in the BarmOre will case was
closed yesterday, before Surrogate Hutchings. W. s.
Townsend, brotherin-law OF Robert Mccullough, who
sonnlaw Of the deceased man, and is one OF his
heirs, testified that 1871, Mccullough said that family
Influence would cause Mr. BalnOre to dsiuherit lis
daughter Mrs EdfidSc, ON account OF difficulties Win
her husband.
The suit of David Banks against Kirkland g.
Co. dismissed yesterday BY Judge Loew, in Common
Pleas Trial Term. Mr. Banks bought of the defendants
heater but after long trial found it would not heat
tho whole house, and sued 10 its price The
not warrant that the heater would heat the house or sell
it with any special reference to the house to be warmed
and the plantiH 90 without remedy.
In the suit by the Roosevelt Hospital to set
aside as7rssment for S9S3j II Tor sewer in Ninth
ave. Judge Lawrence. in supreme Court Special Term,
in elaborate opinion. holds he hospital liable lie do
cares that aside entirely from the Act OF 1874. chsri
bic Institutions. though not liable FOR taxation are liable
assessments for local improvements, and there Is
nothing the charter the hospital to take IL out OF
ts rule ard that the tact that - was marAcd eX-
ot oil tbe tax books dOcs not Culto INC corporation
10 say that its property has no assessed value.
In the case of VIM. X. Glare against the
National City Blnh whore the palnt.n injured by
materials falling from defendants building while under
repair the Superior Court. General Term decides that
the defEdan. not responsible Judge 5peir wriunS
the opinion Of the Court holds that the work being done
under contract the contractors workmrn were not The
defendants servants, to make the bank liable Tor
examined INTO the performance OF the WORK 10y the
contractors did not alter the relations between the BANK,
the contractors and the wOrkmen, or make the CON
tractors empiOye the banks servants.
In the second trial of the suit of William NJ.
Newman anst George H. Goddard, the jury yesterday,
before Judge Lawrence in supreme Court, Circuit, gave
the plaintiff verdict for $4,000. Plaintiff, III May,
1851 kept store Camden, Arkansas, and was driven
from it as q Union After waiting two or three
months he started, by way of Texas for the North,
where he arrived IN 1868. lie claims mat ms goods
then worth $ls 900, and that beside being deprived
them by force subsequently subjected o. VIC.
fence and danger by the same persons "h0m God1aId
represented. He claimed 100000 DAMAGES. The de-
fHse was that Goddard really stood between Newman
and the passions Of the hcrcer part OF tAo community,
ana should be muCted in any yindctye damages II
III any damages at all.