The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-01-16

A Novel suit TINT Rcsuitcd from Exhumin
u Husbands Body.

A novel cnso has recently been put into
tho hands Of Counsellor job LIppencott Of Hud-
son CITY. n. j., by County Physician Stout DR..
bird OF Hudson City, and Deputy County Physi-
clan Douglass OF East Newark. II will doubt
less be before the County Court In an action
against Mrs. stephen X. Jorolanon OF Kearney
township for professional services rendered by
the medical gentlemen named above. Ex Free
holder Joroamon, against whose widow the
suit ia to be brought, died last summer under
suspicious circumstances, and II was deemed
expedient to have a post-mortem examination
Of the remains made. The body was exhumed
and examined, and tho three medical men de-
mand f3OOO for their services. lhey assert that
the cxhumation and examination were under
taken at the earnest Oi'ttation Of Mrs. JOro-
lamon. who visited to clear herself and her
daughter from sts pcions that had been aroused
10y the circumstances attending her husbands
death; and they therefore LOOK to her for pay
mgnt
Mr.. Joroamons will. executed short time
before his death. gives thtee-fourths OF his
property to Miss Ella W. seal on the demise Of
her mother, Mrs. JOrol mon. on condition that
Ella does not mnrry one John BOYD, son Of John
Doid. Sr. who lives at Woodsihe, Newark. In
case Miss sal disobeys her step-tathers In
jun,tion the properly goes 70 somo charitable
institution. This decree was the result OF quar-
rel between MIR. Jurollmon and Mr.. Boyd, Sr .,
while they vera with Gen. Hllstead Of kearney,
acting ns Commissioners ON tho Montclair Rail
rond They vere both Interested In the road IN
the extent of SlS0pO each. but crisis In the AZ
fairs 81 the company having arrived, Jorolamon
deemed II Vi-able to sever his connection with
the road. lie therefore had The necessary doc
umcnt prepared for presentation to the Iegis-
laturc 10y Gen. Hastead. AID on the night be-
fore II twas to De forwarded he showed
the paper to Mr.. Boyd. That gentleman request
ed the loan Of the document, as he wished to
present a similar application, and 1t was lent to
him with tho understanding that IL should TO
returned on the following morning, as Gen.
Halstead was TO start for Trenton on an early
train. MIR. Boyd carefully copied the document,
substituting his own name Tor JOrolamon's. and
early In the morning took hts copy to Gen. Hal
stead and returned the original 90 Jorolamon.
At thts time Young Boyd WAS paying his adj
dresses to Miss Seal the parents on both sides
giving cheerful consent to the proposed union
of the young folks. But the trick played upon
Jorolamon by the father emhittered him against
all OF tue name Of Boyd, and the daughter was
ordered to dismiss the son forever. or he
turned out OF the house and cut OF with
a shilling. The lovers, thlnking that time
would eventuall, smooth things, met IN eciet,
but the Knowledge Of their stolen int rviews
reached the ears Of the irate ex-freeholder,
who, when his stepdaughter refused point blank
TO discard her lover. carried his threat into exc
cuton and sent her adrift. She went to New
ark. and there supported herself for some
months. nut was at last sent for to return home.
Boyd was ned in allowance until Mr. Jorula-
mons death, after which the lovers met openly,
and continued so to meet; but whether they
Ia the Will remains to oe seen.