New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-15

DISTRICT Court OF BROWN Co. D
Ninth Judicial Dist, State Of Mimi. {
NAY TERM, 1878.
E The May general term Of the district
court convened last week, Tuesday,
May 9TH. Hon. e. St. Julien Cox,
judge of this district presiding. There
was full attendance of the degal fra
ternity from this city, together with a
sprinkling of attorneys from st. Paul,
st. Peter and st. James. After the
preliminary business had been gone
through with the following cases were
taken up and disposed Of:
John N. Nenno VS.. Winona & St.
Peter Railroad company. Continued
by consent of counsel, until next terra
of court.
w. H. Stevens VS.. w. Montgomery.
Continued by consent Of parties.
S. L. Sheldon VS.. Ole N elson and liver
Knudsen. Continued until next term
of court.
Herman Geske VS.. VIM. Winkel-
mann. Action on note. Jury trial.
Judgement for plaintiff against defend
ent $288.7O.
Michael Scales VS.. M. Mullen. Case
dismissed for want Of prosecution.
Dorathea Aftermath VS.. M. SINNERS.
Jury trial. Verdict in favor of plain
tiff 5000.
James Leahy VS.. VIM. Day, Anna
Day and Luman Gilbert. Continued.
Geo. Hoffman, VS.. Gottfried Kas-
sulke, Anna G. Kassulke. Jury trial.
Jury failed to agree.
On motion of B. f. Weber a COM
mittee of three consisting Of Weber,
Kuhlman and Lind were appointed to
draft resolutions of sympathy on the
death of Hon. Chas. Roos. The COM
mittee reported the following:
Whereas since the last session of this
Court the Hon. Chas. Roos, an attorney
of this Court, has deceased; Therefore
Resolved,
That we recognize in the life of the deceased an
example OF strict and unyielding honesty; ever
true to his friends and fearless, prompt and faith
u IN the discharge of his public and private duties.
Resolved,
highest respects for the memory of their deceased
brother and with emotions of profound regard and
sorrow tender this tribute to his memory.
That the members of this bar while mourning his
loss tender their sincere sympathy to the family of
the deceased.
Resolved,
That these resolutions be spread upon the Records
OF this Court and that copy thereofbe transmitted
to the family of the deceased.
BE-. WEBER.
JOHN LIND.
GEO. HUFFMAN.
After the resolutions had been read
Judge Cox made the following well
pointed order.
General Term, Brown Co., Dist Courtl
| Gentlemen of the bar:
! It's eminently proper and in keeping with the
respect due from courts to the memters of the bar
as we'll as duty the latter owed to themselves nd
their brethren in the profession that when the grim
messenger calls brother that other Jurisdiction
removes one from our midst, leaving his place al.
lent before an earthly tribunal that beftting and
proper notice be taken thereof by the court to the
end that proper respect being shown, that placed
upon the records may preserve his memory to the
living and that doing we also may hope to transmit
to our children the legacy Of good name cherished
by those with whom our walk in life has been cast
| an encouragement stimulating the living to emu
late the virtues of the dead Particularly it is in
the demite Of the Hon. Charles Roos who thou oh
an active participant in practice at the bar SO
long and ably filled the position of an officer of this
court Asa public man his life was pure and spot.
ACSo' <AS Ouc WHOSE Walks were IN the
paths csissSce not given to the encouragement OF
strife amongst his fellow men. As private indi.
vldua true in his friendships, bameless in his con.
VersatloR honest in every transaction. In short he
squared his conduct through life to the Justian
precepts "Honeste vivere, alterum non lacdere
SUM unique tribuere.'' To the citizens of Brown
Co. the sympathy of this bench and bar are fully
extended as well as to his family in the imperable
| loss they have sustained.
! The resolutions offered by the committee are
adopted and the same are ordered to be spread at
| large upon the journal of this court.
| Il. ST. JULIEN COX, Judge
| The court adjourned Saturday, at 10
a. m. having been in session five days.
But before it's adjournment Judge Cox
politely thanked the officers of the
court, the jury and the attorneys in at.
tendance for the courtesy extended the
court. The gentlemanly and business
like manner with which Judge Cox dis.
patched the business before the court
won him golden opinions. Judge Nc.
Donald, of Shakopee, presided part of
the term, as Judge Cox had been inter
ested in some Of the cases that came
up for trial.
LINDEN,
MAY 5th, 1878.
Editor REvIEw:-I have heen a constant roo dor