The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-18
Court Cuttings.

| An interesting suit is before Judge
| Burnet and jury, IN which W. f. Craw.
ford claims $4,000 damages against the
Cincinnati, Hamilton e Dayton Railroad
for being put off the train because he did
| not show his commutation ticket. The
railroad officials claim that he had either
sold or lost his ticket, and that he ap
piled on the day in question to the ticket
agent for duplicate and was informed
That it must be obtained through orders
from higher source, and that he then
declared his intention of riding without
any ticket or paying his fare, and was
accordingly put off at Brighton station
The case ia in progress.
VLeannor Il Enwright are urging a
gritty suit against Casper Meyer and
John M. Blair for $3.50 for sand sold them.
Nathan Craig was tried yesterday ON a
| charge of forging an order on G. X.
Wayne & Co. for a lot of feather busters.
A verdict of guilty was rendered.
The case of the County Commissioners
against o. M. Langdon was called yes
terday, but passed temporarily. The
suit is brought to recover about $4,000,
which the plaintiffs claim the defendant,
as Superintendent OF Longview Asylum,
received from pay patients in that insti-
tuition, and refused to account for. The
ueieuuahG ucules HaplliIy, anu neehs Wy
cross-petition to recover $36, 900 for extra
services rendered in the institution, run
ming through period of years from 1857
down to about 1872.
Charles Stillinger is not 90 particular
about that Sc, 900 now. He brought suit
against Geo. Gobrecht for $4,000 DANA
ges for slander but when the case was
called yesterday, Charles was not to
be found, and the case was dismissed at
his cost.
Lawrence Hearne gotjudgment against
James Dole for $3.50, yesterday, because
James allowed his gate to stand around
in such q dangerous condition that it
finally fell on Lawrence and broke his
leg.
J.F. scho wkepf, Of Buffalo, New York,
and other creditors yesterday filed their
complaint in the District Court, asking
that Albert Isphording, of this city, be
declared bankrupt upon the ground
that he gave a chatLel mortgage ON his
goods when he knew he was insOlyent.
District Attorney Bateman yesterday
filed information in the United States
District Court that Collector Weitzel
had seized five barrels Of spirits, two
wooden stills, two copper stills, boilers
and other distillery apparatus (belong-
ing, as it is supposed, to John Appen-
Lcllcl 4AO dpho Iuc OOulU tudL tuc prop
erty may be condemned and sold, &C.
cording to law. The grounds of seizure
are that the distillery was carried on il
licitly and contrary TO the revenue law.
Macauley has filed his answer to Fie-
deldey's suit to recover $4,000 damages
for being elected from Woods Theater.
The defendant denies that the plaintiff
had any right to the seats which he and
his party occupied in the theater, or that
they were violently or unlawfully drag
ged from their seats, Or that they had
any right to occupy them; that the seats
were reserved to other parties, and the
plaintiff was offered other seats equally
desirable, or the alternative of having
his money returned, but refused in
violent and abusive manner, and for his
disturbing and interrupting the perform
ance, and creating alarm and cOnsterna-
tion in the theater on that occasion, the
manager claims in cross-petition to
recover $4,000.
Major VIM. Travis filed a petition
against the Cincinnati Gas Company
yesterday, alleging that on the I'D of
September, 1874, he entered into an agree
ment as an attorney at law with the de-
fendant to perform certain legal servi-
ces for 5000; that he performed his agree
ment, and that the defendant refuses to
pay him. He therefore asks a judgment.